Mike Echols > Quotes

“For generations Americans had pointed with pride and confidence to our children as the future of the nation. We cherished them. We protected them. We nurtured them in order to ensure that the world of tomorrow would be far better than our world today. Or did we?”
― Mike Echols, I Know My First Name Is Steven

“I think we disadvantage our children by teaching them to respect authority figures. In many cases those authority figures are the people who hurt kids because, in cases of sexual assault, the estimates are that seventy percent of the people that molest children are people that they know and many times [they] are a figure of trust and authority.”
― Mike Echols, I Know My First Name Is Steven

“Let's get over that assumption that everybody is a good parent. . . that old assumption by the court system and social services. We have tens of thousands of children in graves that were returned to their parents by social services, or not removed from their homes, because their parents weren't good parents.”
― Mike Echols, I Know My First Name Is Steven

“he finally found his way back to the trailer before”
― Mike Echols, I Know My First Name Is Steven

“Child victims feel alone, isolated, and dependent. They respond to small kindnesses, find comfort in acts that suggest normalcy, and seek to adapt to their changed, troubled new world.”
― Mike Echols, I Know My First Name Is Steven