Gender Based Violence Quotes

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Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. When you harass or vilify someone, you not only disrespect them, but yourself also. Street harassment, sexual violence, sexual harassment, gender-based violence and racism, are all acts committed by a person who in fact has no self respect. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
Miya Yamanouchi (Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women)
In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Homosexuals are not made, they are born.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Some people are doing evil and bad things. To ease their conscious they are always blame others, because they don't want to to be accountable of what they are doing. Blaming others makes them feel like they are good people or doing something good.
D.J. Kyos
We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope! We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!
Widad Akreyi
Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of a "civil right," it means the nation has arrived at a consensus that is nonnegotiable. Violence against women would no longer be written off ... Once our criminal justice system -- at the local, state and federal levels -- recognized these as serious and inexcusable crimes, women could stop blaming themselves.
Joe Biden (Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics)
Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!
Widad Akreyi
Behind every man alive and kicking, there is a woman. Behind every woman abused and killed, there is a man.
Abhijit Naskar (Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World)
Trying to control someone or trying to control someone's life is an abuse on its own.
D.J. Kyos
No one has more rights than the other. Every right comes with responsibility and accountability. Let your human rights not violate, others humans rights.
D.J. Kyos
Gender based violence won't end, because of revenge, lies, hypocrisy and double standards, but it will end when we speak the truth always, doing what is right and the law doing what is right without fear or favor.
D.J. Kyos
Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary labels, not the animals. This way, animals are more civilized than humans.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
I’ve heard nauseating stories of women who have given up their dreams because they fear for their safety, who go to worse schools that are closer to home in order to avoid sexual predators. These stories come from all over the world, including the US. Until the day we end all gender-based violence, we need stronger efforts to protect women and girls. There is no equality without safety.
Melinda French Gates (The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World)
Choose to live, by Choosing to leave. If it disturbs your peace. It is not working out. If it ruins your happiness, character, behavior, reputation and drains your energy. If it gives your pain, wounds, sorrow, heartbreak, headache, stress, grief, sleepless night and discomfort.
D.J. Kyos
If you are going to fight Gender Based Violence. Fighting it . It doesn't start when you see two opposite gender fighting , but it start with you. On how do you speak to other people. What do you say to other people and how do you behave or act around other people. How do you address other people and how do you respond to other people.
D.J. Kyos
Choose to live, by choosing to leave.
D.J. Kyos
There is a thin line. Between fighting for equal rights and fighting to be treated special and lot of people confuses the two.
D.J. Kyos
Its not the victim's duty to end rape.We can have as many conferences as we like. Its not our duty
Malebo Sephodi
Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.
Bailey Poland (Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online)
...from all accounts, the war within the war is a war on women's bodies.
Karyn L. Freedman (One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery)
Helping a person who does not want help or who is not ready to be helped. That person will see you as a problem.
D.J. Kyos
A father is someone who uses their strength to protect their family not someone who uses their strength to hurt their family.
D.J. Kyos
The fact is that Latin America has some of the highest rates of gender-based violence and femicide in the world, according to the Wilson Center.
Paola Ramos (Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America)
It is always nice to be reckless and wild in the presence of a good company, because you know nothing bad will happen to you.
D.J. Kyos
People who are being abused, who accept the abuse and see nothing wrong about it. End up abusing others.
D.J. Kyos
People throwing tantrums and fake outrage. Knowing very well that their judgment is not based on whether what was done, being right or wrong, but it depends on who did it to make it right or wrong.
D.J. Kyos
In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains. But it's not true. Granted, men are often brutal to women. Yet it is women who routinely manage brothels in poor countries, who ensure that their daughter's genitals are cut, who feed sons before daughters, who take their sons but not their daughters to clinics for vaccination.
Nicholas D. Kristof (Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide)
Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people beyond the man-made primitive citadels of gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.
Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
Entertaining wrong crowd or being in the presents of people who don't want you or like you. Brings lot of trouble and problems. Everything you do will be offensive, insensitive, bad, wrong, inappropriate and questionable to them.
D.J. Kyos
Lot of people are not looking for solutions for their problems, but are looking for someone or something to blame as a solution to their problem. That is why their problems never go away, and they always have someone or something to blame.
D.J. Kyos
People choose to solve the person, not to solve the problem, caused by the person. That is why cancel culture, doesn’t cancel wrong things ,but it cancels people. It is because themselves are doing the same things, for they see nothing wrong, but the person who did them ,being wrong.
D.J. Kyos
No one deserve to die, to be hurt, to injured, to be raped, to be abused, to be molested by you. No matter what you did for them. No matter how powerful you are, how sexy you are , how rich you are, how right you are or what did they do or not do to you and no matter how hurt or broken you are.
D.J. Kyos
We must commit to pulling our brothers and sisters out of the river and also commit to going upstream to identify, confront, and hold accountable those who are pushing them in. We help parents bury their babies who were victims of gun violence. And we go upstream to fight the gun manufacturers and politicians who profit from their children’s deaths. We step into the gap to sustain moms who are raising families with imprisoned dads. And we go upstream to dismantle the injustice of mass incarceration. We fund recovery programs for those suffering from opioid addiction. And we go upstream to rail against the system that enables Big Pharma and corrupt doctors to get richer every time another kid gets hooked. We provide shelter and mentoring for LGBTQ homeless kids. And we go upstream to renounce the religious-based bigotry, family rejection, and homophobic policies that make LGBTQ kids more than twice as likely as their straight or cis-gender peers to experience homelessness. We help struggling veterans get the PTSD treatment they need and deserve, and we go upstream to confront the military-industrial complex, which is so zealous to send our soldiers to war and so willing to abandon them when they return.
Glennon Doyle (Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living)
The hardest thing of being a man for me is not knowing you have done or said something wrong, but everyday being persecuted for it . A man can never defend himself for any wrong doing, because even the guilty ones claim they are innocent. Yet true innocent ones, always get wrongfully convicted. While guilty ones walk free.
D.J. Kyos
He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. 'Look what I do to these poor boys,' I thought. And yet also, 'Here is my value, my power.' So when he dumped me – because he was bored with me, because he'd found someone else more exciting – I felt both a deep relief and a very real sense of failure.
Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
The principle of treating others the same way one would like to be treated is echoed in at least twelve religions of the world. “Others” transcend gender, race, class, sexual orientation or caste. Whoever and whatever the “other” is, she has to be treated with dignity, kindness, love, and respect. In African communitarian spirituality, this is well expressed in the Ubuntu religious and ethical ideal of “I am because you are, and since we are, therefore I am”—a mandate based on the reality of our being interconnected and interdependent as creation. Therefore pain caused to one is pain shared by all. FULATA MOYO, PROGRAM EXECUTIVE, WOMEN IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY, WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
Jimmy Carter (A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power)
Every woman, from the prostitute to the nun, possesses equal right to safety, protection, and freedom; in a manner unrelated to the consent or standards drawn out by men. We do not choose which woman for whom to provide more protection and more safety based upon what she is doing with her own body, how she clothes herself, or the style by which she chooses to live.
C. JoyBell C.
Most people choose to be hurt and killed by something they have power to avoid, because of their ego, arrogance and wanting to prove a point. They choose to put themselves in harms way. Always choose safety, when it comes to your life. Be wise and choose to avoid arguments, fights, conflicts, people, places , situations or doing things that can get you killed or hurt.
D.J. Kyos
A No coming from a drunk voice is still a no. A No coming from a soft voice is still a no. A No coming from someone who is naked is still a no. A No coming from someone you know , is still a no. A No coming from your partner , is still a no. A No coming from a stranger , is still a no. A No coming from a child or someone younger than you, Is still a no. A No coming from someone who is scared, is still a no. A No coming from someone who is crying , is still a no.
D.J. Kyos
How I wish more women can be heard. Can be skilled and educated. Can be empowered and given opportunities. Can be respected and be credited. Can be loved and valued. Can have their choices and opinion . Can have their privacy and freedom. Cannot be policed nor by their looks, clothes or behavior. Can take accountability and responsibility for their actions. Can own up to their decision. To all women out there. Happy International Women's Day We love and appreciate you.
D.J. Kyos
To lovers out there … Please when you are In a relationship. Ask your partner that , They must not buy or give you a gift that will cost you your life and freedom from them. They must not do things for you or with you that will you cost you your soul, peace and happiness. They must not do things for you or with you , If those things means ,you must pay with your own life. They should not feel like you owe them something. Dying should not be the price you pay for loving someone or being a relationship with someone.
D.J. Kyos
Transactivists try to liken single sex spaces and services to racial segregation or discrimination based on sexual orientation, but that is a false equivalent. Men being violent towards women is a well documented problem in our society. We have no evidence that people of certain races or sexual orientations are more dangerous than others. Therefore, a woman requesting a female doctor is both reasonable and justified in light of male pattern violence, while discrimination against a lesbian or a black doctor would clearly be wrong.
Isidora Sanger (Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective)
They are strong They are the rock. They are important Lets love them. Lets respect them Lets honor them. Lets appreciate them Lets protect them Lets support them Lets save them Lets listen to them Lets believe them Lets be there for them. They are our children, our sisters, our girlfriends, our friends, our wives, our mothers, our grand mothers, our colleagues, our neighbors. They don't need to prove themselves or to explain themselves to anyone. They need to be who they are. Phenomenal women. To all the women out there . Happy Women's Month
D.J. Kyos
In my experience, the process of being masculinized, the process of becoming a man, was based on three practices: the practice of violence, the endurance of physical pain, and the violation of consent. As a preteen, you were supposed to punch each other at random. You were supposed to point your airsoft gun at someone else and ask, “Can I shoot you?”; when they said no, you were supposed to do it anyway. You were supposed to learn to never say no, and you were supposed to punish people when they did say no. You were supposed to stigmatize and victimize weakness.
Jacob Tobia (Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story)
What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights', they assume something similar is being demanded - that trans people be enabled to live without discrimination, harassment and violence, and to express themselves as they wish. Such goals are worthy ones, but they are not what mainstream transactivism is about. What campaigners mean by 'trans rights' is gender self-identification: that trans people be treated in every circumstance as members of the sex they identify with, rather than the sex they actually are. This is not a human right at all. It is a demand that everyone else lose their rights to single-sex spaces, services and activities. And in its requirement that everyone else accept trans peoples' subjective beliefs as objective reality, it is akin to a new state religion, complete with blasphemy laws. All this explains the speed. When you want new laws, you can focus on lobbying, rather than the painstaking business of building broad-based coalitions. And when those laws will take away other people's rights, it is not only unnecessary to build public awareness - it is imperative to keep the public in the dark.
Helen Joyce (Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality)
People choose not to care about right or wrong. They only care about who did what ? They choose to only call out people they don’t like, because when the same actions done by others. They don’t see anything wrong. To them is not about what happen, Is who made it happen. It is not the problem or offence committed. They are concerned about, but It is who made the problem or committed the offence that makes them to be concern. They are not condemning the behavior or wrong actions, but are condemning Individuals they don’t like. People choose to solve the person, not to solve the problem, caused by the person. That is why cancel culture, doesn’t cancel wrong things ,but it cancels people. It is because themselves are doing the same things, for they see nothing wrong, but the person who did them ,being wrong.
D.J. Kyos
Dehumanization has fueled innumerable acts of violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocides. It makes slavery, torture, and human trafficking possible. Dehumanizing others is the process by which we become accepting of violations against human nature, the human spirit, and, for many of us, violations against the central tenets of our faith. How does this happen? Maiese explains that most of us believe that people’s basic human rights should not be violated—that crimes like murder, rape, and torture are wrong. Successful dehumanizing, however, creates moral exclusion. Groups targeted based on their identity—gender, ideology, skin color, ethnicity, religion, age—are depicted as “less than” or criminal or even evil. The targeted group eventually falls out of the scope of who is naturally protected by our moral code. This is moral exclusion, and dehumanization is at its core. Dehumanizing always starts with language, often followed by images. We see this throughout history. During the Holocaust, Nazis described Jews as Untermenschen—subhuman. They called Jews rats and depicted them as disease-carrying rodents in everything from military pamphlets to children’s books. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Indigenous people are often referred to as savages. Serbs called Bosnians aliens. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. I know it’s hard to believe that we ourselves could ever get to a place where we would exclude people from equal moral treatment, from our basic moral values, but we’re fighting biology here. We’re hardwired to believe what we see and to attach meaning to the words we hear. We can’t pretend that every citizen who participated in or was a bystander to human atrocities was a violent psychopath. That’s not possible, it’s not true, and it misses the point. The point is that we are all vulnerable to the slow and insidious practice of dehumanizing, therefore we are all responsible for recognizing it and stopping it. THE COURAGE TO EMBRACE OUR HUMANITY Because so many time-worn systems of power have placed certain people outside the realm of what we see as human, much of our work now is more a matter of “rehumanizing.” That starts in the same place dehumanizing starts—with words and images. Today we are edging closer and closer to a world where political and ideological discourse has become
Brené Brown (Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone)
When you drive and you find a No entry road sign, but you decide to proceed. You will find yourself in harms way or in danger. Wherever you see a NO or hear a NO. Don't proceed, just STOP so that there wont be danger or damage.
D.J. Kyos
A word No. It is not a saying. It is not a proverb. It is not a parable. It does not need interpretation. It does not need translation. It is what it is . Is just a No.
D.J. Kyos
Abuse is not only physically. You can abuse someone emotionally and verbally. There is no abuse that is big or small, most important or less important, most serious or less serious, because every abuse is wrong and must stop.
D.J. Kyos
Secrets and lies, are the things that get lot of people in danger or killed, be careful if you are living a secret life that other people don't now about.
D.J. Kyos
People who claim to be something they are not, or who claim to be something they don't understand, are dangerous to everyone and to themselves. They always spread hate, division and separation. They are power hungry.
D.J. Kyos
Most of self claimed activists . Are preaching sexism not equality. They want other people to be oppressed, not liberation of those whom they represent.
D.J. Kyos
The danger of supporting or standing behind a person who is wrong. They will take your support as a confirmation that they are right and whatever they are doing is right. They won't stop doing the bad things they do and they will think that nothing is wrong on what they are doing or saying. Until one day whatever they are doing . They will do it to you or to someone you know.
D.J. Kyos
People will be seeking justice and say the law must take its course. Meanwhile when are called to testify. They commit perjury and will be like the law is not fair , it favors the perpetrator. Most cases are thrown out , because of the victims. They want the perpetrator behind bars so much, that they end up committing perjury.
D.J. Kyos
Everyone should look in the mirror, before pointing a finger. Maybe you are the person everyone is complaining about, but you don't see it. Women know the wrong things they do, and man also know the wrong things they do. Even if everyone denies it and trying to be innocent in public. We point fingers at others and hoping that they don’t find out , about our bad traits, character and behavior. Hoping we are not exposed one day on the wrong things we are hiding. Everyone needs to work on themselves and fix the wrongs they do. That is how we will fix the country.
D.J. Kyos
Choose to live, by Choosing to leave. If it disturbs your peace. It is not working out. If it ruins your happiness, character, behavior, reputation and drains your energy. If it gives you pain, wounds, sorrow, heartbreak, headache, stress, grief, sleepless night and discomfort.
D.J. Kyos
Gender discrimination may not fall traditionally under the umbrella of religion and violence, but it does within the Buddhist system. Buddhist women have said they have been harmed by this gender-based practice.
Michael Jerryson (If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence)
Some people when they are busy enjoying the money. They don't care how the money is got or who gives them the money. They don't see anything wrong and are happily willing to do anything to get that money. Once the money is finished or are now denied to have it. They are only left with their actions. They play a victim card, because they are no longer benefiting.
D.J. Kyos
Some people put themselves in harms way because they think what they can benefit from it. It is greater than the poverty, pain, abuse, assault, rape, humiliation, suffering and is greater than having a boring life or working hard .
D.J. Kyos
[...] In the space of 50 years, we started from a place of formidable feminist collective energy and action pulling together and creating new services to support women who had been subjected to men's violence. Within a couple of generations, we have come to a place where many, if not the majority, of those working in the same organisations and supporting later generations of victim-survivors of men's violence seem to have lost their political edge. What happened to the willingness or ability to stand up for women's sex-based rights and protections, to the understanding of the patriarchal context of men's violence against women?
Karen Ingala Smith (Defending Women's Spaces)
Fighting people who wronged you . Doesn't make you an activist, But fighting for what is right does.
D.J. Kyos
You are preaching black conscious now ? Where was your black conscious, when you raped and murdered another black person. Where was your black conscious, when you abused and assaulted another black person. Where was your black conscious, when you lied and accused another black person. Where was your black conscious when you shamelessly stole and looted money from black people . Where was your black conscious, when you deceived and manipulated black people. When your actions are being questioned. You say they are targeting you, meanwhile you are the one who is targeting black people. To break , extort and to enslave them.
D.J. Kyos
They don't see themselves as victims, because of what has happen to them, but they see themselves as victims , because what has happen to them is now exposed . It might give them exposure, destroy someone or some might even cash in. It is sad that people don't care about the wrong and bad things that happened to them. They care what those things might get them and how others view them.
D.J. Kyos
Being uniquely positioned at the intersections of multiple forms of societal and state violence has allowed Black women to be at the forefront of community-based anti-racist, feminist, queer-friendly and class-conscious responses to gendered and state violence in Canada.
Robyn Maynard (Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present)
To lovers out there … If you lie about your partner. You say bad things about them, that they didn’t do. Also ,If you are lying about a partner that doesn't exist, because you want sympathy, likes, retweets, comments and to trend. Know you are committing Gender Based Violence. What you are doing when lying is instigate and influence hate & harm or violence towards other gender or opposite gender. Some people will hate man or women based on the lie you told. Your instigating gender war , so you can thrive and be seen as hero or a good person. Stop telling lies that will get other people to be in danger, trouble ,harmed, , jailed, hurt or violated.
D.J. Kyos
The betrayal by bystanders can take many forms and can be especially painful in movements for social justice, where participants aspire to solidarity and “beloved community” but where patriarchal customs run deep. For this reason many feminists have expressed reservations about adapting RJ processes for crimes of violence against women. When community norms and beliefs are as divided and contentious as they are at present on matters of gender and power, it is hard to trust that community-based justice alternatives will be any more effective than the conventional justice system in addressing gender-based violence.
Judith Lewis Herman MD (Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice)
Οι γυναικοκτονίες στην Ελλάδα οφείλονται στη φλυαρία των γυναικών. (07/01/2022)
Κωνσταντίνος Τζούμας
When you face a heart break or caught your partner doing wrong things. You are hurt, not because what your partner did. But you are more hurt, because of what you did for them and all the sacrifice you made.
D.J. Kyos
It is a big shame and worrying that the very same people. Who complain about unemployment, service delivery, human rights, Gender Based Violence (GBV) ,equal rights, racism, nepotism, crime, load shedding and corruption choosing or deciding not go and vote. If you don’t go and vote today. You have no rights to complain about anything government does tomorrow. You not voting , you are saying you are ok with everything.
D.J. Kyos
One might consider perpetrators of gender-based violence for the most part as opportunistic offenders; that is, they would be much less likely to commit these crimes if they didn’t have very good reason to believe that they would never be held accountable.
Judith Lewis Herman MD (Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice)
Some people are evil and claim to be good in public eye. Never vouch for people you don’t know on what they are doing in the darkness. People use their unfortunately bad life events or tragedy as their meal ticket. They themselves orchestrated and plotted by purposefully putting themselves in harm’s way because they anticipated that the outcome will be greater than their suffering , pain, or humiliation they had to endure. The problem is they always miscalculate the outcome of the situation . It never goes according to their plan. When their plans of accusing, exhorting, blackmailing, getting reward, benefits or payment fails. They come out crying as victims who are trying to expose their perpetrators. The truth is they don’t have a problem on what happened. They just wanted to be rewarded and compensated on what had happened or they just want to flex the power they have in destroying someone’s life.
D.J. Kyos
You don’t have to lie for people to believe you or to believe on what happened. You can choose to tell the truth without exaggerating. Lies will make you lose.
D.J. Kyos
Racist people choose not to see the wrongs or right been done, but they choose to see skin color or the race of the person doing that. If an act, behavior, or crime is committed. Racist people want to see the color of the person who did it, then they can decide if what was done right or wrong. Some will complain and say how bad or how wrong what was done, until they see it is one of their own who did it. Then they choose to change the tone or goal posts, and they start to justify the wrongs or crime that was done. Some people protect each other and hide every wrong and bad thing they are doing. Then they lash out, exaggerate, throw tantrum, lie, and fake outrage for the bad things done by others, because they don’t look like them. Most people principles and morality are racial, or gender based these days. That is why there is much wrong things been done and there is no love.
De philosopher DJ Kyos
There is a consensus in Afghan society: violence must end, respect for human rights will form the path to a lasting peace and stability across the country. The people’s aspirations must be represented in an accountable, broad-based, gender sensitive, multi-ethnic, representative government that delivers daily value.67
Rory Stewart (The Places in Between)
People who are toxic, rude, mean, vile, confused, narcist, psychopath, and have main character syndrome. Get pleasure, excitement, and fulfillment in destroying other people's lives and careers. In canceling others. They flourish and thrive in other people's mishaps, mistakes, sadness, downfall, and failures.
De philosopher DJ Kyos
Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document, but people tend to practice it around the dialogue table. One should not raise, for instance, such questions as gender justice, sexual orientation issues, religious constructions of the other, multiple forms of violence in a religious community, or religious cooperation with neo/imperialism. each religion has its own _history of sin_ that has justified and perpetuated oppression and exclusion of certain groups of people through its own religious teaching, doctrine, and practice. In order to be _nice_ and _tolerant_ to one another, interreligious dialogue has not challenged the fundamental issues of injustice that a particular religion has practiced, justified, and perpetuated in various ways. I do not disregard that most ecumenists have based interreligious dialogue on a politics of tolerance, and this has played a significant role in easing the antagonism between religions, at least among the leaders of established religions. However, we should ground an authentic ecumenism and theology of religion in a _politics of affirmation and transformation, rather than a politics of tolerance_.
Namsoon Kang (Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World)
To be clear: Racial epithets; slurs based on gender, sexuality, or ethnicity; and other personal attacks and denigrations have no place in civil society or discourse. However, Baer is suggesting that we should put in place what the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly called prior restraints on free speech. Baer’s pseudosophisticated model applied at our nation’s colleges and universities would result in regular censorship. This is dangerous because students are supposed to learn to debate and overcome bad ideas with words, facts, and reason rather than violence, censorship, or government suppression. In fact, this is exactly what happened when Charles Murray tried to speak at Middlebury College in Vermont in March 2017.13 Rather than listen to his arguments and debate him, students attacked Murray and another professor. After successfully disrupting a planned speech by Murray, the students tracked Murray and a professor down to where they had fled and assaulted them. The professor, Allison Stranger, was ultimately hospitalized. Applying Baer’s model to society at-large would bring about a system of government-led speech oppression that would place the United States in the company of China, Russia, and North Korea.
Newt Gingrich (Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback)
irony here is kind of cringe-inducing, too. If I try to put the effect of that earliest workshop into less bromidic words, the best I can do is this: it was like having my world turned upside-down, and then realizing that, in fact, the world had always been upside-down, and I had just come right-side up. There was a sense of relief in knowing that all those things that had looked so wrong—the injustice of violence against women, the limits placed on us because of our gender, the fear of losing our mothers, our sisters, ourselves—were, in fact, wrong. That I was right to be angry about them. Empowerment-based self-defense training left me with a completely new way of looking at self-defense—a perspective diametrically opposed to mainstream approaches to safety.
Susan Schorn (Smile at Strangers: And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly)
To lovers out there …. Statistics show that most or the majority of people are been murdered by their partners or lovers. Either out of jealousy, revenge, anger, or money. Be careful whom you choose to date or marry. Even if it is for time being or nothing serious. Even if they are means to an end. You might be choosing your murder.
D.J. Kyos
People don’t care about the law, justice, morals, ethics, respect, right or wrong, rape, gender-based violence, assault, corruption, crime, fraud or human rights. They just want themselves and the people they love or like to get preference. To get away with everything wrong, not to be judged, and to be in power. They want people they don’t like or love to suffer, be persecuted, trialed, arrested, and to be removed from power. That is why they are biased and have double standards. Their concern has nothing to do with injustice but is just preference.
D.J. Kyos
When we fight each other. We will defeat each other. When we fight Gender Based Violence . We will defeat Gender Based Violence. Most women fight every man and most man fight every women , thinking they are fighting Gender Based Violence. Until man and women choose to fight the enemy which is GBV instead of fighting each other. That is when we will defeat Gender Based Violence. It’s not certain people or celebrities who should fight this, but it is everyone's calling.
D.J. Kyos
In Africa we are being killed by our leaders.
D.J. Kyos
The problem with some people or government is that they are waiting for certain occasions or days to do or to threat people in a way they should be treating them everyday .
D.J. Kyos
As long we make lies facts, mean while we know the truth in us. Lot of people are still going to die. The problem will never go away. The more we lie about the truth, the more the damage .
De_philosopher_DJKyos
I know and understand that people say man are bad or trash , but why when good men are advised. 99.99999 percent they are advised to stay away from women .
D.J. Kyos
Regarding discrimination against women, it can be said that gender equality campaigns will prove effective if it is launched in rural and remote pockets of countries that are surveyed as exhibiting such discrimination. There is scarcely such discrimination today among the educated lot. However, it may be agreed that when it comes to reposing confidence in the skills of women, there may be some hesitation posed. Moreover, women have always been at par with men when it comes to their abilities; it is just that both men and women are gifted differently. Women are more intelligent, while men exhibit traits of being intellectuals. Hypothetically if there is a weighing scale to weigh the abilities of what men can achieve and what women can achieve, I am confident that the scale will be balanced. I think creating such awareness will do much good rather than reclaiming something which naturally exists.
Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author
The President, politicians and government officials will never stop something bad from happening or any criminal activities, Kidnapping, human trafficking, drugs, illegal immigrant, violence, vandalism, bribe, stealing, extortion, corruption, fraud, scams as long they are benefiting from it.
D.J. Kyos
People on Social Media don't sympathize, but they capitalize. They only support you when it benefits them. Their support has nothing to do , on how you're feeling and what you are going through. Their support is about what they are getting in supporting you. Most people are selfish.
D.J. Kyos
Thus, unless we actively seek out this information, it can remain below our radar. Or perhaps we conceal the truth because we want to protect our children from the harsh realities of gender-based violence. One could argue that protecting children in this way as a means of instilling in them a robust sense of security is an important aspect of early childhood development. But at some point, sticking to this story becomes counterproductive, for as long as we are taught that the world is a benign place for women, when harm comes to us the most reasonable conclusion to draw is that it is our fault.
Karyn L. Freedman (One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery)
The problem with statistics is that they are easy to ignore. There is anonymity in number, which can make it hard to hold on to the facts - the people - behind them. Statistics are by definition impersonal. In order to make the problem of violence against women palpable we need to know the stories behind the numbers,..
Karyn L. Freedman (One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery)
.... according to the myth that virgin blood is a panacea for disease and illness, infant rape and baby rape were being used as a cure for AIDS in South Africa and elsewhere. In was or peace, it seemed, women and children were at high risk.
Karyn L. Freedman (One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery)
A man who raises his hand at a woman, has no right to the world.
Abhijit Naskar (Woman Over World: The Novel)
The biggest pain is not what happened to me or what I am feeling, but the biggest pain is to pretend like nothing happen.
D.J. Kyos
Jennifer Pozner put it in 2010 about another massacre by a woman-hating man: I am sick to death that I have to keep writing some version of this same article or blog post on loop. But I have to, because in all of these cases, gender-based violence lies at the heart of these crimes—and leaving this motivating factor uninvestigated not only deprives the public of the full, accurate picture of the events at hand, but leaves us without the analysis and context needed to understand the violence, recognize warning signs, and take steps to prevent similar massacres in the future.
Rebecca Solnit (Men Explain Things to Me)