Civil rights Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“We have far more than eighty-seven thousand rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an isolated incident.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Why did it take so long for these women's ruined lives to become a human rights issue? Perhaps the answer is that these violations…

— S.J. Friedman

“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…

— Joe Biden

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography,…

— Kofi Annan

“It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,

— Patrick Stewart

“Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not…

— Michelle Goldberg

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a…

— Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

— Nazanin Boniadi

“It's time that America wakes up and take a moral stand against all violence especially that is committed against women & children. Violence is…

— Timothy Pina

“Violence against women is the last refuge of disgusting immoral men.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what…

— Alex Scarrow