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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power. - J. B. Pritzker
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.J. B. Pritzker
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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.J. B. Pritzker
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We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.Ana Navarro
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I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense.Tarana Burke
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?Victoria Wood
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So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.Tarana Burke
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.Warren Farrell
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We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So there's a larger conversation to be had. And I think it will be a disservice to people if we couch this conversation in about what happens in Hollywood or what happens in even political offices.Tarana Burke
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There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.A. S. Byatt
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In India and elsewhere in the world, the moment a woman speaks out against harassment, people sort of start making all sorts of character judgments about her, about her morality, about what she was wearing, and all such things, and I think that is not fair.Huma Qureshi
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The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.Sarah McBride
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Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the feminist movement, which is trying to rebrand public debate as harassment.Milo Yiannopoulos
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.Dawn Steel
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My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.Hope Jahren
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Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.Pramila Jayapal
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I haven't faced harassment in terms of work, but I think every girl in India has gone through some or the other awkward moment in public where she was eve-teased or touched inappropriately.Taapsee Pannu
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I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.Meena Harris
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If you're ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans, I will call the police. That is literally harassment.James Charles
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Making sure borrowers are treated with dignity and protected from unwanted and unnecessary harassment is an important step to ensuring economic fairness moving forward.Jake Auchincloss
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I'm all for teaching about important concepts like consent; I'm also very aware of how damaging and destructive it can be to be a victim of sexual harassment.Kat Timpf
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But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.Anita Hill
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Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.Phyllis Schlafly
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Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.Katherine Jenkins
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We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.Marsha P. Johnson
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Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge. - Tony West
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.Tony West
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I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.Peter Beard
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All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do. - Kirsten Powers
All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do.Kirsten Powers
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Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.Sanjaya Baru
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Like many issues that have been exploited for political gains, sexual harassment and abuse are real, and incidents of these horrific acts happen every day.Brett Cooper
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Sexual harassment does bring shame.Tarana Burke
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The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.Katherine Dunn
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Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.Milo Yiannopoulos
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When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.Pramila Jayapal
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I can't watch Kevin Spacey's show anymore, though I have loved it earlier, because he has been accused of harassment. It disgusts me as a person.Ileana D'Cruz
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A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'Zoe Quinn
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Like sexual harassment in the workplace and two-martini lunches, VJs are the stuff of legend whose time and train have passed, but I was fortunate enough to sneak into the express and ride it through the greatest age.Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
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With social media, it's another place, another venue for young people to go. I talk about using it wisely, the wise freedom of using social media, because it can be used for good, which it should, but we also see a lot of harassment, you know, online.Cynthia Germanotta
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.Barbara Amiel
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If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.Celeste Ng
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Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.Mo Ibrahim
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Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.Anita Sarkeesian
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The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.Eazy-E
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I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop.Jason Priestley
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When someone is humiliating and harassing a woman, he must be knowing that the victim is needy and left with no option but to tolerate such harassment to save the job.Soni Razdan
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Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.Rachel Simmons
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There is another person on the other end of the chatscreen. They're our friends, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters. Let's take a stand to reject hate and harassment. And let's redouble our efforts to be kind and respectful to one another. And let's remind the world what the gaming community is really all about.Michael Morhaime
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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.Judith Butler
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From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.Jan Schakowsky
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I fail to understand why the #MeToo campaign in India didn't gain momentum when Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested after an actress was abducted and assaulted or when Telugu actress Sri Reddy was banned for talking about sexual harassment. These instances were more deserving of the #MeToo movement than anything else.Payal Rohatgi
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I deplore sexual harassment.Lawrence Wright
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I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.Tom Cole
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Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.Nell Scovell
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As governor, I would gladly sign legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Other states have led on these issues, and I firmly believe that Ohio must provide an inclusive, welcoming, and tolerant environment that is free of harassment and discrimination for everyone.Richard Cordray
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I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.Zoe Quinn
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Women politicians in Pakistan have to deal with severe sexual harassment within their own parties and from their opponents.Reham Khan
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By creating a uniform foreclosure process, Congress will be protecting homeowners and eliminating third-party harassment.Jake Auchincloss
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Issues such as child benefit, abortion, equal pay, maternity leave, Sure Start, action against sexual harassment and more found a sisterhood of cheerleaders in female MPs.Rachel Reeves
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.Denis Diderot
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Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment.Cori Bush
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