Youth Conflict Quotes

To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

I was fighting men at age 10.

I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.