Cameron Monaghan Quotes

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.