From the mouths of babes

Kids learn about violence this way, either watching it on the streets, orwatching it through their family cause they're part of their loved ones. So it'll hurt them more if they see it in the family than if you see somebody out there in a gang doing it. Violence and fighting--that's not it. It's not why God put us on this earth. God put us on this earth so that we could all know each other and be different colors, but he didn't put us on this earth for violence."

PHOTO: Tiffany, age 12, in Voices from the Future, The Story Violence in America as Told by Our Children (Crown). (FPG INTERNATIONAL)