Children Quote by Alice Miller

“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression may have…

— Alice Miller

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they…

— Chris Grayling

“An adult can be fully aware of his feelings only if he had caring parents or caregivers. People who were abused and neglected in…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to…

— John Holt

“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch your spouse,…

— Damien Echols

You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my…

— Chantal Akerman

For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level…

— Michelle Alexander

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think…

— Angela Davis

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a…

— Antony Starr

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

— P. D. James

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most…

— Andrew Solomon

“So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet…

— Rebecca Eanes