Political Quotes

“I rise today to honor the efforts of the Take Back The Night Alliance, an organization in the metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky area that is working to end a problem that affects us all in one way or another: violence against women. On Thursday, September 10, as part of Sexual Assault Awareness and Domestic Violence Awareness months, the Alliance will for the first time in its nine-year history kick off a month-long series of events that will create a greater awareness of the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that perpetuate these specific kinds of crimes. The statistics of domestic violence are sobering, and I'll give you just a brief sampling here: A woman is physically abused every nine seconds in the United States. In Kentucky alone, 80,000 women were victims of domestic violence in 1997. One out of four females will be sexually assaulted before they reach the age of 18. For every rape, 10 others go unreported. Husbands and boyfriends commit 13,000 acts of violence against women in the workplace every year. The total healthcare costs of family violence are estimated at $44 million each year.”