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Quotes about Domestic violence

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.
- Gloria Steinem
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
- Gloria Steinem
When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.
- Isabel Allende
What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.
- Mike Pence
Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)
- Alice Walker
If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue.
- Tony Evans
If you want to own the power of God at your waist belt, you should have a background check. If you are a domestic violence abuser, convicted, you should not have a gun where you could snuff out the lives of your loved ones.
- Andrew Gillum
LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.
- Jesse Lee Peterson