Child Abuse Quotes - Page 4

• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.

  Samantha Morton

  Morning, Children, Abuse

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• I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

  Tyler Perry

  Children, Differences, Abuse

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

  Rick James

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Hurt, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Children, Racism, Justice

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  Carl Karcher

  Money, Children, Pain

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• I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Children, Corn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Emotional, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Expression, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

  David Frost

  Love, Stay Strong, Children

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

  Sean Penn

  Children, Father, Hands

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• Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Health, Drug

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Sadness, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.

  Steve Chalke

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Religious, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Eye, Thinking

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• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Country, Children, Careers

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• I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Children, Guitar

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.

  Jocelyn Brown

  Children, Parent, Abuse

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• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  Barbara Bush

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

  David Schneider

  Children, Numbers, Domestic Violence

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• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  Cameron Diaz

  Birthday, Family, Children

  "Kimberly Stewart sorry for calling Aniston 'homely'; Paltrow slams Hollywood as sexist; Pete Townshend engaged?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2005.

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• You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today." The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls." The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay." And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that." Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.

  Michele Bachmann

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  "Can Michele Bachmann Save Me?" by Michael Kimmel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as the instigating or justifying factor for many individual and mass crimes, ranging from the religious wars, inquisitions, witch burnings, and pogroms of earlier eras to systematic child abuse and ritual murders today.

  Nadine Strossen

  Religious, Children, War

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