Basmah bint Saud Quotes

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.

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

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.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

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

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.

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.'

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

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 don't believe in violence against women.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

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

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

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

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

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

Woe to him who kills his daughter on people’s talk.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.

I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.

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.

Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.

Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.