Harassment Quotes

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

I live to harass white folks.

Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.

we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target.

We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls.

They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.

Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton.

It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming.

Sexual harassment law is very important.

But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Almost everything can be construed as sexual harassment depending upon the way it is said. One general rule of thumb is to think of your female co-workers as you would your sister. Yes, she is a woman. No, she is not a sexual object. Yes, your parents probably like her more than they like you.

Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.

Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.

Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line).

.. It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants.

People talk to me all the time about sexual harassment.

This sort of behavior did not only happen in the past. And it's not in just the working class. It's in every industry. It's in the military. It's in politics.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.

The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits.

Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.

Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you to act. Are you going to continue to feel sorry for yourself? On the other hand, are you ready to do what you need to do to change your situation?

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.