David Souter Quotes

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.'

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

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.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

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.

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

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.

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

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.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

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.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

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

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.

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

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.

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

How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

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