Children Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

— Michelle Alexander

If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters…

— Barack Obama

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of…

— Adrienne Rich

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is…

— Molly Ivins

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

— Gale Sayers

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”

— John Grisham

Let's figure out ways of keeping our children out of the juvenile justice system and in the classroom so that they'll thrive. Because if…

— Valerie Jarrett

Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are…

— Howard Dean

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

— Jonathan Kozol

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel…

— Bobby Scott