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“Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its allies. The Holocaust should never be forgotten and should never happen again.”

Book:My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

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“Astonishingly, the share of students who don't get education in contraceptives is going up, not down. The Trump administration even tried to cut off funding for a teen pregnancy prevention program (lawsuits forced it to continue that funding). What's confounding is that these same officials are often anti-abortion, yet they don't seem to understand that preventing unplanned pregnancies will reduce abortions. They believe that condoms will promote promiscuity, when condoms no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain. These same officials then thunder about the irresponsibility of girls who get pregnant, oblivious to their own irresponsibility.”

Abortion Birth Control Contraceptives Teen Pregnancy

Book:Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Source: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

“Well, it probably won't live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself. She be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking. Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground. Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live.”

Toni Morrison Teen Pregnancy The Bluest Eye

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Fewer teens having sex is one of the reasons behind what many see as one of the most positive youth trends in recent years: the teen birthrate hit an all-time low in 2015, cut by more than half since its modern peak in the early 1990s.”

Teen Pregnancy Igen Teen Birthrate

Book:iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Source: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

“She was a stupid slut for having a baby, and if she’d had an abortion, she also would’ve been a stupid slut. It was a game you could not win.”

Pro Choice Teen Pregnancy

Book:Margo's Got Money Troubles

Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles

“She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?”

Young Adult Teens Teen Pregnancy

Book:Game Plan

Source: Game Plan

“Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.”

Life Inspirational Temptation Choice Opportunity Temptation

Author:Steve Maraboli

“When I began writing stories as a child, I wrote copies of what I read, and in many respects, that is what I’ve have continued doing, in only a slightly less obvious way. The illusion of artistic freedom is just that, an illusion. No words are “my words”—I merely arrange and use them in a certain way.”