Joyce Banda Quotes

I love my play 'The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife' because I get these letters from all of these women who literally have left their spouses who were abusing them. You know, I'm just breaking up marriages right and left. But, that need to be broken up.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

I'd like to give people the hope and help I didn't have and that I had to learn by myself.

With what I've gone through, I think it's really important to become a voice for abuse victims who have no voice. I want to be able to make a difference.

I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.

I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.

There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.

Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?

If you are in any position of influence, then it's almost your duty to try to help. If people don't have the ability or opportunity to help themselves, then sometimes it's got to come from someone who can.

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

A lot of times I've reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn't have nobody to help them when they were down and out.

Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

We have that responsibility to look out for those who haven't had the road and the success that we have.

A lot of people say I inspire them or I've helped them - kids who have been bullied in school or parents coming up to me because their kids have been bullied or anything that they've went through. It really touches me.

As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.

Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

The best medicine for despair is service.