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Quotes About Harassment

Jodi cut to the point: The United States had a system for muting sexual harassment claims, which often enabled the harassers instead of stopping them. Women routinely signed away the right to talk about their own experiences. Harassers often continued onward, finding fresh ground on which to commit the same offenses.
~ Jodi Kantor
I've heard many women say that they were afraid to come out or they were too ashamed to talk about it because they thought it was something they had done to promote the man to sexually harass them - and that is not the case.
~ Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
Sexual harassment is as difficult to prove as it is to disprove.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Casting couch is not just a man's fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.
~ Andrea Jeremiah
There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.
~ Zoe Quinn
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.
~ Phil McGraw
Today, we each need to guard against various large and small Outrage Machines of the political Left. Otherwise, we can be shunned, harassed, dogpiled, smeared, publicly shamed, devastatingly labelled, falsely accused of wrongdoing, or otherwise hurt and harmed for trivial, dubious, or non-existent transgressions. Our good reputations can be destroyed, our jobs can be threatened or ended, and our careers can be ruined.
~ Russell Blackford
And you know how some whitefolks is, won't let well enough alone. If they want to bad enough, they gon harass a blessing from you if it kill.
~ Alice Walker
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
~ Anonymous
Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.
~ Rachel Simmons
I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
~ Beth Ditto
For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.
~ Sienna Miller
I am not someone who enjoys being followed and harassed. I prefer to stay at home with my family than to go out.
~ Roberto Firmino
It is so frustrating to feel in danger. People have followed me around at 2 in the morning and have literally said, 'Don't make me follow you. You're not responding to me.' It's incredibly degrading.
~ Zazie Beetz
By their indifference to abuse, bullying, and harassment, parents, teachers, and employers send additional, subtle messages often written between the lines: You must also endure whatever comes with the package. It happens. Life is tough. Kids will be kids. We all went through it. It's part of growing up. It's a rite of passage. Get over it. It'll make you stronger. Suck it up, kid. Hey, you wanna work here, you don't make waves.
~ Frank E. Peretti
First Boston was so plagued with harassment and discrimination problems that it hired a consultant to train the salesmen and traders not to sexually harass female interviewees. But the training was hopeless. Much to the horror of the middle-aged female consultant, during one training session, a male employee opened a mock interview by asking the prospective female employee, "So, babe, do you want to fuck?
~ Frank Partnoy
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.
~ Tony West
Right Wing watch falsely accused me of harassing Oliver Darcy, a reporter for CNN. However, I was practicing real journalism at a Conservative conference where it is the consensus that 'CNN' is fake news.
~ Laura Loomer
Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment.
~ Cori Bush
To date, Donald Trump has been accused of rape (including by his first wife, Ivana, who later dropped the charges), sexual assault, and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men's sense that they are more important than women, as a group.
~ Anita Hill
The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harasses me.
~ Johann Wolfgange Von Gothe