Young Violence Quotes
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down (Young Violence Quotes)
Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away (Young Violence Quotes)
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity (Young Violence Quotes)
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. (Young Violence Quotes)
One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don’t want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It’s important that they’re not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There’s grief in my books. (Young Violence Quotes)
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. (Young Violence Quotes)
There’s no problem on the planet that can’t be solved without violence. That’s the lesson of the civil rights movement. (Young Violence Quotes)
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even (Young Violence Quotes)
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence (Young Violence Quotes)
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival (Young Violence Quotes)