Juvenile Rights Quotes

When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

The power of the state lawfully to control the religious and other activities of children is greater than its power over similar activities of adults

Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting around the fact that a teenage brain is not an adult brain.

Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.