Quotes About Honor Killings

#1. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

Gloria Steinem

#2. the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

Alice Glass

#4. In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist'

Pamela Geller

#5. The United Nations has estimated that there are 5,000 honor killings a year, almost all in the Muslim world. But that estimate appears too low, because so many of the executions are disguised as accidents or suicides.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#6. And getting licked by someone furry wasn't threatening but being kissed by the non furred male was, which made sense when the furry and non furred were the same person. Wolf.

Anne Bishop

#7. Don't forget the ash because you see a little silk.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.

John C. Maxwell

#10. Your inner nature is your kind nature, when you give unconditionally, when you are inspired or feel truly motivated and full of vitality

Gyalwa Dokhampa

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Maybe one day when we're older and wiser, our paths will cross again and we can do it right. You're the love of my life. I can't believe I let that slip away. I hope one day it'll come back.
All of my love and apologies are forever yours, as am I.
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Emily Trunko

#12. I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.

Aerin Lauder

#13. So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Jesse Jackson

#14. Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.

Czeslaw Milosz

#15. When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Jack Kornfield

#16. One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Ray Manzarek