402 Quotes About Domestic-violence

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

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.