Jackson Katz Quotes

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.

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

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

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 as American as apple pie.

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

Violence against women is not inevitable.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

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

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

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.

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we have to worry about.' We might have to worry about high schools. We might have to worry about police precincts and cars. We might have to worry about public housing.

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