Joycelyn Elders Quotes

Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.