Domestic Violence Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence. Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don’t go to school. It’s also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.”
– Shakira Mebarak

“We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they’re subject to by teachers and their own parents.”
– Shakira Mebarak

“We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.”
– Shakira Mebarak

“It takes the entire community to end domestic violence.”
– Sharon Moore

“Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.”
– Shelley Moore Capito

“My therapist said to me ‘OK, let’s just say your daughters do end up marrying someone like him. When the abuse starts they’ll think ‘Mom stayed, I suppose that’s the right thing to do.’ That’s when I realized that I was setting a frightening example.”
– Sheri

“The first time Mike hit Stretch was on a Saturday night soon after they returned home from the bar. Stretch was allowed two drinks when they went out, Mike was an endless hole. Mike didn’t like people to talk to Stretch.”
– Sherry Tomfeld

“As Stretch lay on the floor, ears ringing and senses bewildered, Mike simply went to bed. The next morning there was a hollow apology with the soon to be familiar attached phrase, ‘You shouldn’t have made me mad. I like ya Stretch, but you shouldn’t have made me mad.’”
– Sherry Tomfeld

“Stretch did not fit the part of a victim of domestic violence. She knew no one would ever believe that she was suffering from domestic abuse by everyone’s buddy. She knew no one who knew her would ever believe that she would stand for such treatment, she didn’t understand it herself.”
– Sherry Tomfeld

“Domestic Violence.. it’s hard to read about. It’s harder to live through.”
– Sherry Tomfeld

“Domestic violence can occur at any age.”
– Stephen McCausland

“Drugs, domestic violence and poverty, each one of these things is a burden to bear. Put together, these are unbelievably difficult challenges.”
– Sue Jacobs

“These are kids who have been exposed to alcohol abuse and domestic violence and we want to break that cycle.”
– Sue Sedivec

“When you love a person and are violated by that person, the situation is often much more complicated than experts admit or the victim themselves confess to because it’s taboo and too complicated to understand how you love somebody that hurts you.”
– Tiffiney Penn

“It was difficult those first few weeks. I was trying to understand how a man I loved, who’d never shown me violence before, with whom I shared the responsibility of raising a child, and said he loved me, could do something so horrific to me. I was trying to figure out how to stop loving him or even if I should.”
– Tiffiney Penn

“I cannot remain silent, he cannot remain silent – what happened to Chris and Rhianna is becoming the norm and we need to start talking about this trend to help others shed their pain.”
– Tiffiney Penn

“I encourage other victims, survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence to share their stories – they are both affected, it’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
– Tiffiney Penn

“There are men and women who continue to suffer in silence each and everyday. Simply because their not celebrities and their stories are not news worthy, they continue to suffer from the silence of their shame.”
– Tiffiney Penn

“It’s hard to look for the light when your lost in darkness.”
– Unknown

“Partners in law enforcement, agencies, and the community, are all needed to help eliminate domestic violence.”
– Unknown

“He doesn’t have to hit you for it to be abuse. He can degrade, humiliate, blame, curse, manipulate, or try to control you. Its still domestic violence.”
– Unknown

“Domestic violence is not a joke…Ever.”
– Unknown

“Domestic violence victims lose nearly 8 million days of paid work a year. That’s more than 32,000 full-time jobs.”
– Unknown

“Domestic violence and abuse are used for one purpose and one purpose only: to gain and maintain total control over you. An abuser doesn’t play fair. Abusers use fear, guilt, shame, and intimidation to wear you down and keep you under his or her thumb. Your abuser may also threaten you, hurt you, or hurt those around you.”
– Unknown

“Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.”
– Unknown

“For years he had me believing it was my fault. He made me think I was stupid and ugly and I deserved what I got… I was scared… I could never manage without him and no-one would ever want me or give me a job.”
– Unknown

“I loved him – I still do really. He put me in hospital twice but I just melted when I saw him crying. I thought hitting me showed he cared. I believed him when he said he would change.”
– Unknown

“He turned everyone against me. I had no friends, no social life, no support. He got the children to keep track of my movements and tell him what I’d been doing and who I’d talked to. I knew he’d never let me go.”
– Unknown

“My mother, his mother, our counsellor and our minister all told me I should stay… They said he was trying to change and I needed to support him. I waited through six years of hell.”
– Unknown

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