Silent Abuse Quotes

#1. Here's what bothers me about adults. They say we're supposed to be the bigger person and lie there like road kill while the bullies repeatedly run us over. That we're saying more by taking the abuse and staying silent, than sticking up for ourselves. I don't see it that way.

Lauren Hammond

#2. Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches!

Diane Chamberlain

#3. Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered. - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#4. This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

Abby Norman

#5. Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Rick Larsen

#6. Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Beverly Engel

#7. Then
why don't I tell on him?
If they don't,
why don't I?
Because.
Because I am safe this way,
silent
unnoticed.

Thalia Chaltas

#8. There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Criss Jami

#11. She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.

Dennis Sharpe