Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.