Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.