Juvenile Justice Quotes

• I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Thinking, Justice, Mentor

  "Q’Orianka Kilcher,BBAACCSS1‘Firelight’ Star, On Playing A Latina Juvenile Delinquent". Interview with Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Home, Kids, Willing

  "Society's Pushed-Out Children" by Margie Casady, Psychology Today, June 1975.

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, This Generation

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• California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs.

  Gil Garcetti

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

  Hill Harper

  Brother, Book, Reading

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