Russell Wilson Quotes

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.

Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet, domestic violence continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of their background, career, race or age, and it is vital that we do something now to protect those directly affected by abuse in the home.

My wife is my best friend. The thought that people are afraid to go home to their partners for fear of being abused physically or emotionally makes me feel sick. It's not easy but you need to get help and get out.

As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.

I was born and raised in war.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem. Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is that it's very much a crime, and a very serious one.

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.