We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
When it comes to our children, the most precious treasure God ever gives us, we protect them with a little sign that says, 'No guns allowed.'
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
We often fight wars with our young.
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