Quotes tagged ‘Sexual Assault Victims’

(10 total)

“There is no shame in being a victim of sexual violence. Shame belongs to the perpetrator alone.”

“Perpetrators commit the sexual assault, yet the victims are the ones punished, discredited, and questioned.”

“Sexual violence happens on a spectrum, and I think that accountability should happen on a spectrum as well.”

“The gray area is really important to talk about because so many of us live in the gray area. People talk a lot about how men are confused about consent and they don’t know if they should touch this or touch that, or ask.”

— Tarana Burke, yesmagazine.org

“This iteration in social media has placed a larger focus on perpetrators being called out and held accountable for their actions. But the actual Me Too movement is about supporting sexual assault survivors.”

— Tarana Burke, yesmagazine.org

“And they’re someone else: Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Ala., when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by th…”

— Oprah, nytimes.com

“So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become…”

— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com

“And I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights.”

— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com

“They are domestic workers and farmworkers; they are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science; they’re part of the world of tech and politics and business; they’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the m…”

— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com

“And for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.”

— Oprah, nytimes.com