Domestic Violence Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“In many of the domestic violence cases, the victim wants the case dismissed. Being a woman in this field helps me understand where victims are coming from. You have small children; you’re dependent. You need someone to help you.”
– Lisa Eliason

“Police departments should have a zero-tolerance policy toward domestic violence. Officers and other violators should be treated as criminals just as they would in any other situation.”
– Lisa Holden

“Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.”
– Lisa Murkowski

“Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.”
– Lois Capps

“I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.”
– Lucille Roybal-Allard

“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.”
– Lucille Roybal-Allard

“This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.”
– Lucille Roybal-Allard

“To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.”
– Lucille Roybal-Allard

“To be a survivor–first you must bleed. You bleed all that was inside of you: the pain, the memories, the fear, the wounds fusing together, the ties to what was in, all its forms. You bleed not once but several times.. And when you are empty, you either fade into a shadow or find the strength, and courage to live. When you stand up again, you are for a time, hollow–empty, like a bottle of beer lying on the street, cracked and reeking of its bitter contents. Then you fill yourself up with the new, your recreate yourself–you reform. You don’t have the same heart or mind. The way you see the world is forever changed.”
– Lynn Mari

“I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county’s first battered-women’s shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.”
– Lynn Woolsey

“One of the dilemmas domestic violence agencies have been facing for awhile is the fact that there are not enough beds.”
– Maggie Jones

“In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as ‘mail-order brides’ were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to this country, and it cost them their lives. We must let women know they have options.”
– Maria Cantwell

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
– Mark Caine

“If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.”
– Mark Green

“You can hear this gasp coming from the community at large, just a sense of disbelief. I think it’s a wake-up call…that domestic violence affects every community that we know. There just isn’t some magic way that some community is somehow immune.”
– Mary Gianakis

“Everything that we know about domestic violence is that it is about power and controlling people. That control manifests itself differently in every situation.”
– Mary Gianakis

“Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission.”
– Melda Beaty

“Denial within our community is doubly damaging. We need to open our eyes to what’s going on. Research shows that domestic violence in same sex relationships is just as high as it is in heterosexual ones. Awareness and acknowledgement is low and there is a lack of services for victims to access.”
– Melvin Hartley

“It’s a policy of the office to proceed on a domestic violence case regardless of the victim’s wishes.”
– Michael Edmondson

“It’s something that’s been a long time coming. Most sexual violence and domestic violence committed against women is committed by men, but most men are not violent.”
– Michael Mandel

“Domestic violence is America’s hidden war. And the battleground is in all our homes.”
– Michelle Bussolotti

“It’s still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don’t have words for what I saw. This has to stop.”
– Mike Crapo

“There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.”
– Miquita Oliver

“We also understand that victims often have a limited timeframe in which to access support. We are committed to ensuring that we create an organisational culture whereby information and support is available before a victim is convinced, coerced or forced to return to her abuser.”
– NHS London

“Some health professionals see domestic violence primarily as a criminal justice issue, resenting the expectation that they should respond to domestic abuse when they already have so much pressure to deliver the basics in the time that they have with patients.”
– NHS London

“Domestic violence is the leading cause of morbidity for women aged 19-44 – greater than cancer, war and motor vehicle accidents.”
– NHS London

“Home Office figures published in February 2008 reveal that thirty three children were murdered by their parents in the previous year.”
– NHS London

“Amongst a group of pregnant women attending primary care in East London, 5% reported that domestic abuse had at sometime in the past caused them to miscarry.”
– NHS London

“Victims are more likely than most to present with psychological and psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety, despair, post traumatic stress disorder. Indicators may be self medication of drugs and alcohol; post traumatic stress, self harm and or suicide attempts.”
– NHS London

“Victims of domestic abuse are more likely than most to present with symptoms related to musculoskeletal disorders and chronic pain, genitor-urinary disorders, and respiratory illness . Typically injuries can include contusions, abrasions, lacerations, burns, fractures, dislocations, bruises, lost teeth, internal injuries, gynaecological problems and miscarriages.”
– NHS London

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