Child
labor and poverty are inevitably bound together
and if you continue to use the labor of children
as the treatment for the social disease of poverty,
you will have both poverty and child labor to
the end of time.
-- Grace Abbott
The
first and continuing argument for the curtailment
of working hours and the raising of the minimum
age was that education was necessary in a democracy
and working children could not attend school.
-- Grace Abbott
*
"Everyone deserves the best start in life, which
is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's
most vulnerable children. Education is essential
to a child's development. I hope that as an
Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's
mission to make education a reality for children
throughout the world."
-- Clay Aiken
*
"UNICEF is working for the survival of children
worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans
committed to the cause?" "
-- Clay Aiken
*
"There is no trust more sacred than the one
the world holds with children. There is no duty
more important than ensuring that their rights
are respected, that their welfare is protected,
that their lives are free from fear and want
and that they can grow up in peace."
-- Kofi Annan
"Children
do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither
the property of their parents nor even of society. They
belong only to their own future freedom."
-- Mikhail Bakunin
*
I can’t think of any issue that is more important
than working to see that no schoolchild in this
world goes hungry.
-- Drew Barrymore
*
Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing
– but it works miracles.
-- Drew Barrymore
School
feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven
track record of boosting enrollment, attendance
and academic performance. For just pennies a
day per child, this program changes lives –
and ultimately can impact the futures of poor
countries around the world in a profound way.
-- Drew Barrymore
*
"These children and their parents know that getting
an education is not only their right, but a passport
to a better future - for the children and for
the country."
-- Harry Belafonte
"These
children and their parents know that getting an education
is not only their right, but a passport to a better
future - for the children and for the country. Kenya's
decision to abolish school fees is a shining example
of just what can be achieved in the developing world
by sheer political will."
-- Harry Belafonte
"Children
who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just
as deserving of an education as any other children,
but they may need that education even more. Being part
of a school environment will prepare them for the future,
while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination
unfortunately associated with AIDS."
-- Harry Belafonte
*
"...in
serving the best interests of children, we serve
the best interests of all humanity."
-- Carol
Bellamy
"Creating
a world that is truly fit for children does not imply
simply the absence of war. It means having the confidence
that our children would not die of measles or malaria.
It means having access to clean water and proper sanitation.
It means having primary schools nearby that educate
children, free of charge. It means changing the world
with children, ensuring their right to participate,
and that their views are heard and considered. It means
building a world fit for children, where every child
can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity."
-- Carol
Bellamy
"The economic benefits of investing in children
have been extensively documented. Investing fully in
children today will ensure the well-being and productivity
of future generations for decades to come. By contrast,
the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment
that poverty inflicts on children can mean a lifetime
of suffering and want – and a legacy of poverty for
the next generation… "
-- Carol
Bellamy
“…Together
let us build the global alliance to realize that goal,
secure in the knowledge that in serving the best interests
of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.
-- Carol
Bellamy
“When
the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there
must be no silent witnesses.”
“What
is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth
participation and commitment; more services aimed at
youth; more parental involvement; more education and
information, using schools and other sites; more protection
for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more
partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.“
-- Carol
Bellamy
“Despite
the threat of global terror hanging over all of us,
there is only one path: to pursue the Millennium Development
Goals with fresh resolve –confronting violence, bigotry
and hatred with the same determination that we attack
the causes from which they spring – conflict, ignorance,
poverty and disease. The world we seek, where every
child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity
– in short, a world fit for children – has remained
a dream for more years than we can count. But we at
UNICEF are convinced that working together with committed
partners, and with an appropriate plan of action and
a commitment to resources, we can make that dream a
reality for each and every child on earth.”
--
Carol Bellamy
"A
century that began with children having virtually no
rights is ending with children having the most powerful
legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects
their human rights."
--
Carol Bellamy
"The
Convention is not only a visionary document. We are
reminded daily that it is an agreement that works –
and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which
I have seen it increasingly being put by country after
country, in policy, in practice and in law."
--
Carol
Bellamy
*The
fact is that there is enough food in the world
for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's
food and land resources are tied up in producing
beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while
millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition
and starvation.
-- Dr.Walden Bello
We
spoke out, committed civil disobedience, and went
to jail because the peace hangs senselessly and
precariously upon weapons costing billions to build
and billions to improve — weapons which become more
useless as we add to their destructive force. With
this money we could have fed the world's people.
Half the children on earth go to bed hungry — millions
more have retarding and stunting protein deficiencies.
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices
like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political
and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars
on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have
become the international preoccupation."
-- Daniel Berrigan
The
child awakens to a universe.
The mind of the child to a world of meaning.
Imagination to a world of beauty.
Emotions to a world of intimacy.
It takes a universe to make a child
both in outer form and inner spirit.
It takes a universe to educate a child.
A universe to fulfill a child.
~ Thomas Berry
"Children
need systems that are inclusive and driven by
them, systems that will enable them to respond
to their feelings and needs at any time."
-- Jeroo Billimoria
*
Success will be when every child in the world
has access to a service like Childline and knows
that someone who cares is just a phone call away
-- Jeroo Billimoria
*How
do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent
of inner-city children do not drop out of school,
thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?
-- Grace Lee Boggs
*
The ultimate test of a moral society
is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
-- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
We
must look towards societies that set a high value
on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and
therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means.
We can see how child rearing patterns produce
nurturing adult behaviors.”
-- Elise Boulding
*We’re
never going to have respectful and reverential
relationships with the planet- and sensible policies
about what we put in the air, the soil, the water
– if very young children don’t begin learning
about these things literally in their houses,
backyards, streets and schools. We need to have
human beings who are oriented that way from their
earliest memories.”
-- Elise Boulding
"
…And these children that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through…"
-- David Bowie "Changes"
*
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful
world from our parents and they from their parents.
It is in our hands whether our children and their
children inherit the same world. We must not be
the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging
the environment.
-- Richard Branson
*
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't
know where their next meal is coming from, and
13 million of them are children. If another country
were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
-- Jeff
Bridges
*
Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in
any society, even a society that is blessed with
great abundance. That is not true. The European
community does not have widespread hunger. America,
which leads the world in so many ways, can end
childhood hunger within its borders.
-- Pierce Brosnan
*
"We want the world to focus on children whose
lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions
of children who are missing their parents; their
childhood, their future but most importantly,
they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real
difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement
that can change their world."
-- Pierce Brosnan
*
“We are asking people to understand that slavery
still exists today; in fact, according to a recent
New York Times article, if you count the number
of women and children in bonded labor, domestic
slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more
slaves in the world than at any other time in
history.”
-- Charlotte
Bunch
*
"School feeding is a great tool to encourage education
and provide food aid to children born into extremely
impoverished situations. The kids in school being
fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to
learn and better their lives!"
-- Lauren Bush
*
If our American way of life fails the child,
it fails us all.
-- Pearl S. Buck
*
"Every minute of every day, a child under
15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority
of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get
infected through their mothers at birth. Without
treatment, half of these children die before they
reach their second birthday."
-- Gabriel Byrne
"Perhaps
we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which
children are tortured. But we can reduce the number
of tortured children."
-- Albert Camus
"If
I had one wish for my children, it would be that each
of them would reach for goals that have meaning for
them as individuals."
-- Lillian Carter
The
child must know that he is a miracle, that since
the beginning of the world there hasn't been,
and until the end of the world there will not
be, another child like him.
-- Pablo Casals
*
You must work - we must all work to make the world
worthy of its children.
-- Pablo Casals
*
"Stigma
hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied,
isolated and shut out of school. They are missing
out on education. They are missing out on medicines.
Children are missing your love, care and protection.
Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR
CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS"
-- Jackie Chan
*
I
believe that success brings responsibility...
The bottom line is that all of us should be involved
in our own futures to create a world that our
children will want to live in.
-- Harry Chapin
The
most important thing that parents can teach their children
is how to get along without them.
-- Frank A. Clark
*
"Music can speak louder than words, and I will
use my music to speak out on behalf of children
everywhere."
-- Judy Collins
*
We all have families who are longing for peace in
the world and an end to the suffering caused by
poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of
our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our
children, are hoping that there is more understanding,
more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more
caring among people of all faiths and cultures.
-- John Conyers
*
In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization
[World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving
children at schools in third world countries as
an incentive for them to attend school, which in
turn might better their futures. They do so much
more but I was so struck by this story.
--
Sheryl Crow
*
"UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams
for the future — a future in which the basic needs
for a child’s survival: food, clean water and
simple health care — are guaranteed."
-- Jane Curtin
*
As a people, we value family, education and success.
Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies
have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger
can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional
and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly
in school and are unlikely to grow into productive
adults. For families, experiencing hunger means
living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring
citizens must put an end to this disgrace.
-- Ted Danson
"The
greatest gift we can give to our children is to
raise them in a culture of peace."
-- Louise Diamond
Some
of us believe in communism,
Some of us believe in capitalism,
Some of us believe in spiritualism,
Some of us believe in materialism
Some mothers believe in heavy dandy,
Some fathers believe in understanding.
Some of us believe in total freedom,
Some of us believe in laying the rules on.
But the children believe in friends,
For the children of the world,
Every boy and girl,
All they'll know is what we teach 'em,
Most of us fail when we try to reach 'em
For the children believe in having friends
-- Donovan
*We
live in a complex world and the motivation to
use violence to solve problems needs to be seriously
questioned. It is essential that we help our children
perceive peaceful alternatives. We need to use
these troubled times as an opportunity to create
a new vision for the future.
-- Naomi Drew
*
The
only way children can learn the habit of forgiveness
is by seeing us, their parents, forgive others
and forgive ourselves.
-- Naomi Drew
*
If we don't stand up for children, then we don't
stand for much.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
The
legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says
that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
Investing
in [children] is not a national luxury or a national
choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation
of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't
afford to fix it while you're building astronomically
expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies.
The issue is not are we going to pay -- it's are we
going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a
whole lot more later on.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
"For
most of recorded history, parental violence
against children and men's violence against
wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned.
Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish
this violence through religion, law, or custom,
openly or tacitly approved it. …..The reason
violence against women and children is finally
out in the open is that activists have brought
it to global attention."
-- Riane Eisler
*Many
times, a child's struggle against hunger begins
before he or she is born because the mother is
undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and
proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers
in need is a critical part of ending childhood
hunger.
-- Hector Elizondo
"No
guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither
the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction
of great difficulties ahead can serve as the reason
for granting or denying rights to children. Rights will
be granted because without them children are incapacitated,
oppressed, and abused."
-- Richard Farson "Birthrights"
Most
of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure.
Those of us who have looked at the real condition of
children in America, however, see a very different picture--one
in which children are victims of terrible discrimination,
prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the
protection they need most is to have the protection
of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full
persons under the law.
-- Richard Farson
*Unicef's
education initiative does not seek to impose,
but to initiate and integrate. It does, however,
aim to address the huge bias towards education
for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.
-- Ralph
Fiennes
*
Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability
for a child.
-- Ralph
Fiennes
*
"I
have a voice. It‘s one of my gifts. I intend to
use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks
to aid."
-- Laurence Fishburne
"Children
organizing for political rights will probably be treated
initially with ridicule and derision, and then with
misunderstanding and perhaps eventually violence if
the experience of the struggle for women's suffrage
is any precedent. Undoubtedly the greatest obstacle
to be overcome is the adult refusal to acknowledge that
children suffer political discrimination and exclusion.
Adults do not perceive children as a minority group
but as helpless, inexperienced, defenseless young people
who need protection. Adult paternalism seeks to protect
and if in this process it curtails freedom, truncates
potential and destroys civil liberties this is taken
to be incidental. The belief in the legitimacy of paternalism
justifies and cements the existing power relationships
between adults and young people. This attitude must
be confronted, challenged and refuted if young people
are to secure their political rights..."
-- Bob Franklin "The Rights of Children"
*
If we are ever to have real peace in this world
we shall have to begin with the children.
-- Mohandas K.
Gandhi
*
If we are ever to have real peace in this world
we shall have to begin with the children.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi
*
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea
is one of the leading causes of child deaths in
the world.
-- Melinda Gates
*
“It is the most painful thing to see how young
children become collateral damage of wars, but
when peace treaties are signed landmines do not
respect any of these accords. And as long as these
silent killers linger after wars, children will
never know peace”
-- Danny Glover
"If
we talk about literacy, we have to talk about
how to enhance our children's mastery over the
tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and
involved lives."
-- Danny Glover
*
"Children
are a quality of life ... when our children are
happy, then we are better as human beings."
-- Whoopi Goldberg
*
No
one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy,
kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a
child. The effort of every true education should
be to unlock that treasure."
Our
society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable
citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest
links in our country are our hungry children.
No other Western industrialized nation has widespread
hunger within its borders. We really must put
an end to hunger in the United States if we are
to keep our prosperity and protect the future.
-- Linda Gray
*"...in
the midst of migrants in search of a better life
there are people in need of protection: refugees
and asylum-seekers, women and children victims
of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying
of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a
necessity, this is more than poverty."
~
Antonio Guterres
*“In
the last analysis, human security means a child
who did not die, a disease that did not spread,
an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident
who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not
crushed.”
-- Mahbub ul-Haq
The
greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit
that Freedom to their Children.
-- William Havard
*We've
got to work to save our children and do it with
full respect for the fact that if we do not, no
one else is going to do it.
-- Dorothy Height
*
Have
we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken
the next generation?"
--
Audrey Hepburn
"I
speak for those children who cannot speak for
themselves, children who have absolutely nothing
but their courage and their smiles, their wits
and their dreams.”
-- Audrey
Hepburn
"...perhaps
that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact
that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed,
all share the plight and embarrassment of having so
many suffering children. We are united by our neglect,
our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about
the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?"
-- Audrey Hepburn
"Somebody
said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless,
what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there
will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging
the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].'
My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild.
Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take
it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against
life-against humanity-to think that way."
--
Audrey Hepburn
"It
makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in
the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but
if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make
it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive.
These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose
names you will never know…I at least get a dollar a
year, but they don't."
--
Audrey Hepburn
*
"Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but
it's much more important to teach them that other
people besides themselves are important, and that
the best thing they can do with their lives is
to use it in the service of other people."
--
Dolores Huerta
*It
was once said that the moral test of government
is how that government treats those who are in
the dawn of life, the children; those who are
in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those
who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the
needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert Humphrey
*"I
was very fortunate to have learned the transforming
power of music early in life. As an adult I
want to share that power by inspiring people
to care about their neighbors near and far.
Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind
of opportunity."
--
India.Arie
*
"Having
visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural
communities has made me realise how vital education
is to developing countries in bringing people
out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity,
self-worth and confidence."
-- Scarlett
Johansson
*
"I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a
genious to work out that 100 million children
being denied an education is ridiculous. There
is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious
that's wrong.
-- Scarlett
Johansson
*
“Over 20 million children of conflict are out
of school. Education is often forgotten.”
~ Angelina Jolie
To
rescue our children we will have to let them save
us from the power we embody: we will have to trust
the very difference that they forever personify.
And we will have to allow them the choice, without
fear of death: that they may come and do likewise
or that they may come and that we will follow
them, that a little child will lead us back to
the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting
and hurting for love and for beauty.
-- June Jordan
"...we
condemned them, our children, for seeking a different
future. We hated them for their flowers, for their
love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of
every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had
made throughout our hollow, money- bitten, frightened,
adult lives
-- June Jordan
*
"I believe deeply that children are more powerful
than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious
than any other natural resource a country can have.
I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever
done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF."
-- Danny Kaye
*
The message of our campaign is "Make every mother
and child count". This campaign is not just about
health. It is also a powerful call for radical
progress in women's rights and the rights of their
children. Too often, the health of mothers and
children does not count. In too many parts of
the world, they are forgotten.
-- Liya Kebede
*
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every
man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
*
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where
children are gasping for breath on bad-air days
because somebody gave money to a politician. And
my children and the kids of millions of other
Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their
catch because somebody gave money to a politician.
~ Robert
Kennedy, Jr.
*"I
felt my country should do more for its children.
Its children are not born gangsters. In fact,
they have in them the potential to be heroes because
most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders,
very charismatic and good organizers."
-- Azim Khamisa
*
I think it's important for me as an actor that
I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed
to. One of them for me is women and children's
health around the world and their rights;the other
is ovarian cancer.
-- Nicole Kidman
*
"I
won't give up until the exploitation of all
children has ended and all children have their
rights."
-- Craig
Kielburger
*
"If
we are to achieve true peace in this world,
it shall have to begin with the children."
-- Craig
Kielburger
*
"Peace
is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum
for young people, through creating this next generation
where young people get a chance to go across borders,
across cultures, to learn more about each other's life,
to create a global community, learn about opportunities
for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance
training, ending the gap between rich and poor."
-- Craig Kielburger
*
Give
young people a chance, our generation may just
surprise you!
-- Marc Kielburger
Children,
after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are
people whose current needs and rights and experiences
must be taken seriously.
-- Alfie Kohn
“Let's
concede that we have decided to let our children
grow up in two separate nations, and lead two
separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand,
we have the courage to rise to this challenge
to name what's happening within our inner-city
schools, then we also need the courage to be activist
and go out and fight like hell to change it.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“I
write books to change the world. Perhaps I can
only change one little piece of that world. But
if I can empower teachers and good citizens to
give these children, who are the poorest of the
poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids,
then I'll feel my life has been worth it.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
*
Hope is not enough to change the world, to bring
peace, to end starvation and poverty, to provide
a decent education for all children, or to prevent
nuclear holocaust. Yet it is a critical starting
point for building a better and brighter future.
All of us are challenged to connect hope to action
until we have created a might river that will carve
a new path to the future.
-- David Krieger
*
"We're
not locked in to these conditions that degrade
the environment, and jeopardize the future of
our children."
-- Dennis Kucinich
*There
can be no better measure of our governance than
the way we treat our children, and no greater
failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected
to violence, abuse or exploitation.
-- Jessica Lange
"...
the growing child must not be treated by those rigid
rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail
to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure
adult offenders."
-- Julia Lathrop
*We
have an opportunity to focus global attention on
what should be obvious: every mother, and every
child, counts. They count because we value every
human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers
and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous
communities and nations.
~ Dr. LEE
Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General
*
"There is no greater cause than making the world
fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying
on the family tradition by working with UNICEF
to help improve the lives and well-being of children
everywhere."
-- Téa Leoni
*
"If I have brightened up one single sad childhood,
then I have at least accomplished something in
my life."
-- Astrid Lindgren
*
"I love children. I work with UNICEF and one
of the reasons I love that is because they deal
specifically with children. For me I think it’s
just really important to always embrace that
side of you.
--
Lucy Liu
*
"I've witnessed the total devastation of HIV
and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa... I've met too
many brave and beautiful children who are struggling
to care for their sick parents or their orphaned
brothers and sisters. Many children infected
with HIV will not live to see their fifth birthday...
Children suffer not only from this virus but
also the stigma, poverty and destruction that
accompany it. As a UNICEF ambassador I hope
to draw more attention and funding to this crisis.
The tsunami in Asia revealed the deep compassion
and generosity of people worldwide. By working
together and applying that same focus and support,
we can protect a new generation of children
from suffering."
--
Lucy Liu
"Regardless
of what the law or your teachers have to say about this,
you are as human as anyone over the age of 18 or 21,
yet, 'minors' are one of the most oppressed groups of
people in the world, and certainly the most discriminated
against legally."
-- Grace Llewellyn "The Teenage Liberation Handbook"
There
is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the discourses of men.
-- John Locke
*
"We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat
as the singular issue of our era. We are not
indifferent to other human rights and hard-won
civil liberties. But first we must be able to
bequeath to our children the most fundamental
of all rights, which preconditions all others;
the right to survival.
--
Bernard Lown
*
The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's
responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.
-- Graça
Machel-Mandela
*
In a disparate world, children are a unifying
force capable of bringing us all together in support
of a common ethic.
-- Graça
Machel-Mandela
*
Therefore
my challenge to each of you ... is that you ask
yourself what you can do to make a difference.
And then take that action, no matter how large
or how small. For our children have a right to
peace.
-- Graça
Machel-Mandela
it
is clear that increasingly, children are targets,
not incidental casualties, of armed conflict.
-- Graça
Machel-Mandela
*"Safety
and security don't just happen, they are the result
of collective consensus and public investment.
We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens
in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
-- Nelson Mandela
"The
most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to
raise good, honest and generous children who
will question the answers of people who say
the answer is violence. That's what the schools
should be doing."
-- Colman McCarthy
*Unless
we teach children peace, someone else will teach
them violence.
-- Colman McCarthy
*Care
for all the animals they need our help
Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves.
And if we work together to try for harmony
Someday we will live in peace
-- Country Joe
McDonald
*
I want to live long enough to see every school
child in the world getting a good, nutritious
lunch every day.
-- George McGovern
*
'As fathers, we know what a force for life children
can be. They represent all of our futures. UNICEF
is successfully giving children and young people
all over the world opportunities and hope. Just
like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting
them from exploitation and giving them chances
in life.'
-- Ewan McGregor
I
am so honoured to have been given this opportunity
to become an Ambassador. It’s a new and different
venture for me and one that I know will widen
my wider perspective on life. I’m in a position
to use the recognition from my work to do something
really positive for children
-- Ewan McGregor
UNICEF
is doing amazing things here. They’re helping these
groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and
workshops to teach children in all of the schools in
the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they
find one, and if somebody’s hurt, not to rush in – all
of the essential things that kids need to know.”
-- Ewan McGregor
I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just
something that I did on the trip but something I’d do
for the rest of my life
-- Ewan McGregor
*
"The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends
in large measure upon the way our children grow
up today. There is no greater insight into the
future than recognizing that, when we save children,
we save ourselves."
-- Margaret Mead
We
are living beyond our means. As a people we have
developed a life-style that is draining the earth
of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without
regard for the future of our children and people
all around the world.
-- Margaret Mead
"No
society that feeds its children on tales of successful
violence can expect them not to believe that violence
in the end is rewarded."
-- Margaret Mead
"Rather
than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand
with children speaking for themselves. We don't need
a political movement for children... [we need to] build
environments and policies for our collective future."
-- Sandra Meucci
*One
world, one people, living together as a global family!
Young people will cross religious, ethnic and cultural
divides to recognize the universal human as family.
WE ARE ONE and the elders of tomorrow will carry
this torch.
-- Nina Meyerhof
*
"What can we do to make the world's children a
priority..."
-- Alyssa Milano
"I
am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work
UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships
I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing
of financial muscle from rich countries could
do so much.”
-- Alyssa Milano
“One
test of the correctness of educational procedure
is the happiness of the child.”
-– Maria Montessori
*
"Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of
that will drift from the classroom to the home and
who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Lets face it; the children who do that are the hope
of tomorrow."
-- Sir Roger
Moore
*
"The saddest sight these days is the image of
hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and
lured into being child soldiers from the age of
eight. "
-- Sir Roger
Moore
Working
with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how
fortunate I am.
-- Sir Roger
Moore
*
"A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable
rights."
-- Lucretia Mott
*
"I always try to see things with children's eyes.
Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere
I went, I realized that children are society's
victims … We have a duty to speak to political
leaders, to influence people to give these children
a better future."
-- Nana Mouskouri
"I
have been so lucky to receive so much love from
those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to
give as much of it as I can back to children."
-- Nana Mouskouri
*24,000
people, 18,000 of them children, die every day
because of hunger. Each year we bring food to
nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries.
Food – there’s no greater gift, and no better
way to give it than the World Food Programme.
--
Dikembe Mutombo
*I
am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live
in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do
to our children
-- Holly Near
"I
believe that UNICEF is the most important branch
of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help
the neediest children around the world"
-- Liam Neeson
*
"The cause of making the world a better place
for children unites us all..."
-- Liam Neeson
“Forget
the statistics…we have to do more. You cannot
look these children in the eye and see how desperate
is their situation without wanting to help.”
-- Liam Neeson
Children
are the seed for peace or violence in the future,
depending on how they are cared for and stimulated.
Thus, their family and community environment must
be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world,
a world to serve life and hope.
-- Zilda Arns Neumann
*It
took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to
where we are today, but we have just begun. Today
we begin in earnest the work of making sure that
the world we leave our children is just a little
bit better than the one we inhabit today.
-- Barack Obama
*
We must come to terms with our responsibility
to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger.
Our love for life can propel us to share and provide
a secure future for the children of our country.
-- Edward James
Olmos, actor
Compelled
to become instruments of war, to kill and be
killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent
expression to the hatreds of adults
-- Olara Otunnu
My
mandate...is to promote the protection, rights
and welfare of children...
-- Olara Otunnu
*
"the time has come to make the protection
of children -- all our children -- a common
cause that can unite us across the boundaries
of our political orientation, religious affiliation
and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our
lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization
of children simply unaccepetable."
-- Olara Otunnu
Is
it not the interest of the human race, that every
one should be so taught and placed, that he would
find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued
practice of doing all in his power to promote
the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman,
and child, without regard to their class, sect,
party, country or colour"
-- Robert Owen
*
"My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important
to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to
volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal
standard of contributing my time and giving back
to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF‘s lifesaving
efforts is one of my most valued roles."
-- Sarah Jessica
Parker
*
"There can be no global security without respect
for children. We have to be more than just observers
of children's suffering, we have to be partners
with them in their struggles."
-- Landon
Pearson
I've
never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills
of poor children. I've learned how much children
can actually do for themselves if only we provide
the necessary means. That part is up to us."
-- Landon
Pearson
"We
must pay attention to the millions of children of this
generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How
can we protect them from the worst consequences of war?
And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war
out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the
sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment …
are all essential measures. By reuniting children with
their families and providing programs of physical and
psychological rehabilitation."
-- Landon Pearson
I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory
view of good and evil. I believe this is a big
world full of men, women, and children who struggle
to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families,
their beliefs, and their dreams.
-- Sean Penn
*
“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the
coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing
her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns
of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we
broke the back of the sweatshops in this country;
we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent
gifts from enlightened management. They were fought
for, they were bled for, they were died for by
working people, by people like us. Kids ought
to know that. That’s why I sing these songs. That’s
why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no
fruit!”
-- Utah
Phillips
*
"As a nation, this is the moment to start
seriously investing our time, energy and resources
into proven methods of reducing violence, both
within our nation as well as internationally.
The cost of violence to our culture and our children
is simply not sustainable."
-- Joaquin Phoenix
"As
a nation, this is the moment to start seriously
investing our time, energy and resources into
proven methods of reducing violence, both within
our nation as well as internationally. The cost
of violence to our culture and our children is
simply not sustainable. I have learned that in
the United States, youth homicide rates are more
than 10 times that of other leading industrialized
nations, this is just one example of the challenges
we face. Is this really a legacy we want to leave
our children? There is a better way.
-- Joaquin Phoenix
*All
children are artists. The problem is how to remain
an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso
*Let
us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child
dies every three seconds simply because he does
not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the
ones to say we are not satisfied that your place
of birth determines your right to life. Let us be
outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."
-- Brad Pitt
*
Small loans can transform lives, especially the
lives of women and children. The poor can become
empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can
be built, jobs can be created, businesses can
be launched, and individuals can feel a sense
of worth again.
-- Natalie Portman
*
Together we can prevent genocide from happening
again. Together we can make a better future for
our children. -- Dith
Pran
*
If a person would intervene on behalf of one child,
shouldn't we all be intervening for those thousands
of children? So we're asking young people to get
involved. We want young people especially to know
what's going on and to figure out what they can
do about it."
-- Benjamin Quinto
*How
unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting
plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger
and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers,
let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood
garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs
working to put an end to this cruel and needless
blight once and for all.
-- Bonnie Raitt
*Land
mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical
weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and
death on human beings. Most victims are civilians,
women and children. How can arms manufacturers,
weapons designers, plant managers, politicians,
who have families of their own whom they love,
be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering
of other human beings?
-- José Ramos-Horta
*As
long as people and the planet are being exploited,
and billions of dollars are being made precisely
because laborers and the environment are being
abused and used up, there will be children going
hungry and ecological destruction.
~
Ocean Robbins
*Are
we doing enough to help our children create a
more peaceful world?
-- Debbie Robins
What
is truly more important, how our children do on
standardized tests or what kind of human beings
they are and will become? I believe it is our obligation,
as mothers, to get peace into our classrooms so
our children can study, learn and practice peace.
Then, and only then, can we rest assured they will
fulfill their divine destinies as peacemakers and
the world will become a more peaceful place.
-- Debbie Robins
*
our
children are viscerally aware of the heightened violence
on this planet. It has permeated every aspect of their
lives. They are hungry to make a difference, desperate
to affect their reality in a positive way, but they
are unsure of how to do it.
-- Debbie Robins
What
is the solution? To make peace a class, in every school,
at every grade level, in classrooms all over the world
so our children can learn the 'art' of getting along,
which isn't easy, reflected by the current state of
the world
-- Debbie Robins
*
Tolerance,
respect and patience are acquired skills, they are learned
attributes, practiced choices, and until our children
begin to study, learn and practice peace, I believe
this is as good as it gets.
-- Debbie Robins
*"I
hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and
pity and a will to right social wrongs"
-- Anita Roddick
Where,
after all, do universal human rights begin?
In small places, close to home - so close and
so small that they cannot be seen on any maps
of the world ... Such are the places where every
man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal
opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.
Unless these rights have meaning there, they
have little meaning anywhere.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
If
there is any one duty which more than another
we owe it to our children and our children's children
to perform at once, it is to save the forests
of this country, for they constitute the first
and most important element in the conservation
of the natural resources of this country.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
The
function of our Government is to insure to all
its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
If we of this generation destroy the resources
from which our children would otherwise derive
their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our
land to support a population, and so either degrade
the standard of living or deprive the coming generations
of their fight to life on this continent.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
*Ordinary
people like you and me have the chance to make
a tremendous difference for mothers and their
children worldwide
-- Meg Ryan
*The
time has come to end this charade. The debts are
unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I
would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we
need this money to meet the needs of children
who are dying right now so we will put the debt
servicing payments into urgent social investment
in health, education, drinking water, control
of AIDS and other needs.'
-- Jeffrey Sachs
*
"I want my child to walk in a world guided
by love. This means that everybody will have a
job, or the resources to take care of basic needs.
A world where families are not oppressed and are
connected to their neighbors and their communities,
where the best in humanity is honored. That's
when we will truly be at peace."
-- Malika Sanders
if
you can just see all the children of the world
as your own, all the mothers of the world as you
are, we can make a huge difference.
-- Susan Sarandon
*
When my children wake up in the morning they know
they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents,
go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and
store windows are glittering. But at the same
time the great majority of the world's children
and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice
-- Susan Sarandon
My
intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are
less readily heard - children and women at risk
-- Susan Sarandon
Like
most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little
help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their
children reach their full potential...
-- Susan Sarandon
"Knowledge
is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions
of children are missing an education. Missing their
teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from
class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers
and fathers. Children are missing your support. United
for Children. Unite against AIDS."
-- Susan Sarandon
"Whether
children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal
question, but what is not in question is that they someday
will. Constraining them from expressing their views
is no preparation for exercising those rights."
-- Crispin Sartwell
*
"As a new mother, I want to give my children
the best start in life but millions of children
affected with AIDS don’t live with such certainty.
We can all do something to give them a future worth
living for. We can make a difference in a child’s
life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers
and children are given the treatment that they deserve,
in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.”
-- Claudia Schiffer
Everyone
is always talking about our defense effort in
terms of protecting women and children, but no
one ever asks the women and children what they
think.
~ Patricia Schroeder
*There
is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit
the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from
our children." If we use this ethic as a moral
compass, then our rendezvous with reality can
also become a rendezvous with opportunity.
~ Patricia Schroeder
*I
feel that our planet is in peril and that creating
a sustainable planet for my children and my children’s
children is the most important thing I can do
in this lifetime.
-- Kyra Sedgwick
Ever
since I had my first child I have been passionate
in my commitment to preserve our precious resources
for my children and their children’s children.
This is the obligation of all of us visiting this
planet for a limited time.
-- Kyra Sedgwick
*"We
are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children.
We look after them, just as our ancestors look
after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We are
here for each other and for the children of our
grandchildren."
-- Roy Sesana
*"The
schools play an important role when it comes down
to protecting children against violence.Violence
is one of the principal reasons why children don't
go to school. It's also one of the causes of the
alarming school dropout rates." -- Shakira
*
"We know that many boys and girls leave school
because of poverty, because they have to work.
However, there are an important number of children
who abandon their studies because of the abuses
they're subject to by teachers and their own parents."
-- Shakira
*Childhood
hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is
a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the
world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams
of 12 million children and their families? I believe
that, when Americans learn the facts and understand
how their involvement can make a difference, banishing
childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal
priority.
-- Martin Sheen
*"My
goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy
world for our children. Before I leave this world,
I want to be satisfied that at least I tried.
I know I can make a difference, even if it might
only be a small one." -- Maisie
Shiell
In
the past, children were all too often viewed more
as property than people. Many victories for children's
rights have been won in the last 100 years, such
as child labor laws, protecting children from
having to work long hours in unsafe conditions;
public education, allowing all children to have
access to learning; and laws preventing child
abuse. But there is still much to do in protecting
children's rights around the world.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
*I
live in a country where we put children in shackles
and in concrete cells. Working together, with
righteousness and hope, we can create a country
that is about reverence and reconciliation,
not a world of shackles and concrete cells.
-- Lateefah
Simon
*
...180 million kids are engaged in the worst
forms of child labour. Put it all together and
it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically
dangerous.
-- Juan Somavia
*
Can we make a better world for our children? I
believe we can, if enough people are concerned
and get involved in changing what is wrong with
society.
-- Dr. Benjamin
Spock
*
It's up to each of us to help create a better
world for our children.
-- Dr. Benjamin
Spock
*“Receive
the children in reverence, educate them in love,
and send them forth in freedom.”
-- Rudolf Steiner
"It
used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims
on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of
the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are
on the side of the child and the duties on the side
of the parent."
-- William G. Sumner, 1840-1910
It
is a poverty to decide that a child must die so
that you may live as you wish.
~ Mother Teresa
*A
society is judged by the way it cares for its
most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am
ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions
of our children. I want to do my part to rectify
this terrible situation.
-- Marlo
Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance at a life filled with
love, laughter, friends and family. We are working
to find the cures that will give these youngsters
a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces
an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find
hope at St. Jude -- a place where miracles can
and do happen.
--
Marlo
Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance
at a life filled with love,
laughter, friends and family.
--
Marlo
Thomas
*I
want a different world. One where I don’t wake
up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my
daughter, and able to give people a clean drink
of water. I don’t want images of starving babies
at the breast in my mind. I want that to change.
And if I want that, I had better do something
about it.
-- Emma Thompson
“It’s
not funny at all that we do all that advertising
for children. Why is advertising for children
allowed? What possible reason can there be for
having those effing adverts on TV for all this
crap that’s made by poor people in poor countries
that we sell our children who have too much?
-- Emma Thompson
The situation of the world around us can be painted
in a picture of the darkest possible colours.
On one hand, the arms race absorbs for deadly
purposes 40 million dollars every 24 hours. On
the other hand, immeasurable poverty affects the
lives of three-quarters of the men, women and
children in the world around us. The efforts for
disarmament must therefore be an inextricable
part of the efforts to solve the common problems
of our time, problems which ultimately involve
our very survival, the possibility to continue
the human experiment."
--
Inga
Thorsson
"Yes,
I want to remind people that in the Indigenous
Traditions, women are very important. Not because
we are told we are important but because we know
that since forever and always, we have had the
power and the capacity to give birth, raise women
and men and to take care of the earth. It is today
that I thusly give celebration to all the women
on Earth. I would like to ask my sisters to give
up the thoughts and actions of the word victim.
We are no longer Victims & We are strong! I would
like to address an acknowledgement to each woman
here today. We have the power and that power is
rising. Use it to preserve, teach, share, and
raise our voices, to save our children, our planet,
our people, and our earth mother. Don't share
the things that have hurt us but share what can
save us. Turn our scars into Stars! Come together
and reclaim what is inherently ours, the power
to bring forth nurturing Peace! May Peace Prevail!"
-- Mary Thunder
Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you
are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom,
keep going.
-- Harriet Tubman
*"There
is no greater legacy that we can leave our children
and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world."
~ Ted Turner
*
"Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have
an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart
of things and to expose sham and humbug for what
they are."
-- Archbishop Desmond
Tutu
*...just
a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on
defense budgets would make a real difference in
enabling God's children to fill their stomachs,
be educated, and be given the chance to lead fulfilled
and happy lives.
-- Desmond Tutu
*...just
a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on
defense budgets would make a real difference in
enabling God's children to fill their stomachs,
be educated, and be given the chance to lead fulfilled
and happy lives.
-- Desmond Tutu
"I
was really blown away and inspired by everything
that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children
via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really
floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward
a public figure before. To see her kindness was
inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so
real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what
Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like
Cambodia to help children by actually being there
and being more involved."
-- Liv Tyler
*
Did
you know that every two hours the nations of
this world spend as much on armaments as they
spend on the children of this world every year?
-- Peter Ustinov
We
should preserve in adults the confident and joyful
attitude of small children
-- Patricia Verdugo
Aguirre
*A
small child from a developing country has the advantage,
from a very early age, of having access to toys
which structure his mind, which constitute a sure
advantage over the little African child who has
never even held a modern toy.
-- Abdoulaye Wade
*"Teaching
kids how to feed themselves and how to live in
a community responsibly is the center of an education."
-- Alice
Waters
"I
believe that every child in this world needs to
have a relationship with the land...to know how
to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect
with the community around them."
--
Alice Waters
Change
the food in the schools and we can influence how
children think. Change the curriculum and teach
them how to garden and how to cook and we can
show that growing food and cooking and eating
together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty
to our lives.
--
Alice Waters
*"Every
new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'?
Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give
her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations.
Help the World Food Programme break this cycle.
No child should inherit hunger."
-- Rachel Weisz
*The
kind of national goal we ought to be thinking
about is way beyond national product - it is how
do we as a nation help our children be the best
kinds of people they could possibly be?
-- Paul Wellstone
*
"I
fervently believe that, as someone has said
before, "When you change the way you look
at things, the things you look at change."
I want to help change the way young people look
at school, and hence, the way they look at their
futures."
-- Kanye
West
*I
want to help change the way young people look
at school, and hence, the way they look at their
futures."
-- Kanye
West
*
"Help
us show children around the world that we can make
a difference together."
-- Bradley Whitford
“I
hope people will not think we are encouraging
people to break the law. But our actions should
teach people, and children, to scrutinize laws
against human life, and they should be broken
to prove a point.”
-- Barbara Wiedner
*
There
is much to be done, there is much that can be done…
one person of integrity can make a difference, a
difference of life and death. As long as one dissident
is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long
as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled
with anguish and shame. What all these victims need
above all is to know that they are not alone; that
we are not forgetting them, that when their voices
are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while
their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our
freedom depends on theirs.
-- Elie Wiesel
My
cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for
a better tomorrow and a more secure future for
our children and grandchildren.
-- Simon Wiesenthal
"Each
child should have the fundamental right, a constitutional
right, whether it's a tribal constitutional right, federal
or state constitutional right. It's time we made our
constitutions have our children's rights in them so
they can engage in those experiences that he or she
is most anxious to explore, because it is having the
right to choose that is truly indigenous to the democratic
concept."
-- David Wilkins, Lumbee Tribe
*
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves,
lives at home, at work and at play to be lives
of joy and peace.
-- Betty
Williams
Governments
do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal.
A lot of times they not only do not have the answers,
they themselves are the problem. If we are committed
to helping our world’s children, then we must
begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
-- Betty
Williams
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards
of 40,000 children die very day from conditions
of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we
are allowing this carnage to continue
-- Betty
Williams
Your
playing small doesn't serve the world. There's
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you. We are
all meant to shine, as children do.
-- Marianne
Williamson
"A
new educational system in which all children born
shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial,
mental and moral culture, and thus be equally
prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible
and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes
a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of
all monopolies. . . educational superiority."
-- Victoria Woodhull
"Hundreds,
thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men,
women and children, wander the streets of our
cities and the highways of our country, hungry,
ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of
plenty, where physical want should be unknown."
-- Victoria Woodhull
*Education
is the way to move mountains, to build bridges,
to change the world. Education is the path to
the future. I believe that education is indeed
freedom.
-- Oprah Winfrey
*My
hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.
-- Joanne Woodward
*We
bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge
but also our problems. While we still live, let
us join hands, hearts and minds to work together
for their solution so that your world will be
better than ours and the world of your children
even better.
-- Rosalyn Yalow
If
we are to have faith that mankind will survive
and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe
that each succeeding generation will be wiser
than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the
next generation, the total sum of our knowledge.
Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to
it, and transmit it to your children.
-- Rosalyn Yalow
*We
need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever
reason is conjured up by the politicians or the
media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate,
a war against innocents, a war against children.
-- Howard
Zinn
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