Sexual Abuse Prevention Quotes

#1. If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them ... and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

Henry Rollins

#2. Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent sexual assault.

Jennifer Marsh

#3. I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones
I had a childhood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#4. The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

Aasif Mandvi

#5. And Ana remembered her father's words, Say no! Run! Tell me!

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#6. Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#7. Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#8. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#9. When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them
grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#10. The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#11. Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#12. Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#13. God never calls a person [into His service] without equipping him. I know that from experience.

Billy Graham

#14. We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.

Lauren Oliver

#15. The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

Werner Herzog

#16. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.

Erin Merryn

#17. I think death is a big deal, obviously.

Edward Kitsis

#18. Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Woodrow Wilson

#19. I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

Wesley Clark

#20. Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#21. The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#22. Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson

Andrew Zolli

#23. Don't underestimate me. When I want something, I get it. At the moment I want a wife, and I want you.

Alexia Adams

#24. Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#25. Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.

Erin Merryn

#26. If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.

Erin Merryn