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Quotes
 "Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic." - Judith Martin (Miss Manners) "Blessed are the merciful." - Jesus Christ "Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent--for life." Dr. Benjamin Spock "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child does shall not enter it at all." - Jesus Christ "The repression of injuries endured during childhood is the root cause of psychic disorders and criminality." - Dr. Alice Miller "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them: for to such belongs the kingdom of God." - Jesus Christ "The best way to make children good is to make them happy." - Oscar Wilde "Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven." - Jesus Christ "People are not for hitting, and children are people too." - Dr. John Valusek "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." - Jesus Christ "What is done to children, they will do to society." - Dr. Karl Menninger "Forgive seventy times seven." - Jesus Christ "Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing." - Plato "Blessed are the peacemakers." - Jesus Christ "I say that with cruelty and oppression, it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." - Anna Sewell "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!" - Jesus Christ "Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible." - Jean Piaget "First, take the log out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to take the little speck out of someone else's eye." - Jesus Christ "The cultural acceptance of violence should be decreased by discouraging corporal punishment at home." - U.S. Surgeon General "Whatever you have done to little children you have done to me!" - Jesus Christ "Belief in corporal punishment for religious reasons is not a manifestation of religion and not one of the articles of the Christian faith." - British Court System "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness." - Jesus Christ "It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done." - Harriet Beecher Stowe "If you follow my words, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." - Jesus Christ "I have always been an advocate for the total abolition of corporal punishment and I believe the connection with pornography that is so oriented has its roots in our tradition of beating children." - Pastor Gordon Moyes "It's better for someone to have a heavy stone tied around his neck and thrown into the sea than for that person to offend one of these little children." - Jesus Christ "The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden." - Saint John Baptiste de La Salle, "On the Conduct of Christian Schools" "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, for fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (1 John 4:18) - Jesus Christ "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'" (Matthew 25:34-40) - Jesus Christ "Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment." - Plutarch"Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined." - Maria Montessori "Corporal punishment of children actually interferes with the process of learning and with their optimal development as socially responsible adults. We feel it is important for public health workers, teachers, and others concerned for the emotional and physical health of children and youth to support the adoption of alternative methods for the achievment of self-control and responsible behavior in children and adolescents." Dr. Daniel F. Whiteside, Asst. Surgeon General, Dept. of Health & Human Services (Admin. of Ronald Reagan) "Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers." - Ashley Montagu "Corporal punishment of children actually interferes with the process of learning and with their optimal development as socially responsible adults. We feel it is important for public health workers, teachers, and others concerned for the emotional and physical health of children and youth to support the adoption of alternative methods for the achievement of self-contgrol and responsible behavior in children and adolescents." - Dr. Daniel F. Whiteside "Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape--education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack--vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy--a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products." - B.F. Skinner, PhD "Infliction of pain or discomfort, however minor, is not a desirable method of communication with children." - American Medical Association "Spanking is the least effective way to discipline." - American Academy of Pediatrics |
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