Nicole Kidman Quotes

Violence against women is not inevitable.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

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.

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

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

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

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

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

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

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.

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.