As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Interpretation
Ending violence against women is a fundamental responsibility of governments.
This quote emphasizes that addressing violence against women is not merely a desirable action; it is an essential duty of governments to protect human rights. It highlights the seriousness of the issue, framing it as an obligation that must be fulfilled to ensure justice and equality in society.
In practice
During a conference on human rights, this quote could be shared to emphasize the government's role.
The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.
I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.
To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'
So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.
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