The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.” — Jaycee Dugard Copy Share Image
“Life is full of challenges. In the end it's getting up that pulls us through the dark day's. So that we can… — Azelene Williams Copy Share Image
There was no physical abuse or fighting in the home. . . I led a normal life . . . — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
“If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it's a sign and time to step out.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse,… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“The greatest disease of mankind is a lack of love for children, leading to their psychological and sometimes even physical abuse, which… — Bernie Seigel Copy Share Image
“The most pernicious message relayed by pornography is that women are natural sexual prey to men and love it; that sexuality and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There certainly are some women who treat their male partners badly, berating them, calling them names, attempting to control them. The negative… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The abuser’s mood changes are especially perplexing. He can be a different person from day to day, or even from hour to… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Madness, not just physical abuse, was the punishment for too much talk if you were female. Yet even as this fear of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months)… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse. Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can't heal a broken mind.” — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
The only time a lady should be in a hospital because of a man is because of giving birth, not because of… — Ong Lor Copy Share Image
“Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people. — George Pell Copy Share Image
What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
It's just like Michael Jordan and the Detroit Pistons. They tried to take out the best player. Try to put as much… — Justin Jefferson Copy Share Image
“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
“The dependence on the physical often occurs because many black men feel (rightfully or wrongfully) that they are not privy to the… — Ricky L. Jones Copy Share Image
There were several parallels between Jonestown and Escuela Caribe. Both places used isolation to control a large group of people and censored… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I would encourage my children to protect themselves if there's any sort of physical abuse against them. I would definitely go speak… — Rib Hillis Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
