Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

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

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

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'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.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

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 is a huge issue. A good feminist should be working on that - making the world a safer place for girls and women, wherever they live.

Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.

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

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

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 live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

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.

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