Nicholas Kristof Quotes

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

No longer will there be impunity for crimes against women. Now there is an avenue for recourse.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries. At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.