Teacher to class:
"I was always yearning to become an adult because I saw
adults had all the rights. They were masters of
themselves. An unhappy adult can start all over again
from scratch somewhere else, but an unhappy child is
doomed to be helpless. He knows he is unhappy but maybe
he can't ever put that unhappiness into words. But even
worse, something inside him keeps him from being able to
contest his parents or those who made him suffer. If a boy is unloved,
battered he thinks he is responsible and that is what's so horrible.
Among all the
injustices in the world I think injustices to children is the foulest,
the most despicable. Life isn't always fair and never will be, but we've
got to fight for justice. It's worth fighting for. It's the only way."