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A child feels like a lost calf, vulnerable and searching for safety. The quotes remind us that children copy what adults do, so our actions matter. It also calls out the crisis of starving children worldwide, urging compassion beyond our own annoyances.

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A grown child is a dangerous thing.

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You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics…

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It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

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“There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or…

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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

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“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.”

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet…

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being…

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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for…

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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to…

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for…

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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs…

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -…

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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to…

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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The…

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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A…

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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have…

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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and…

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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to…

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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best…

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“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery…

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I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war.…

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“The good ones who listen to women to children and the poor die too soon, their lives bedeviled by opposition: our hearts…

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I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to…

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God.…

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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

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We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is…

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“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she…

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A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as…

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I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity…

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had…

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“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty…

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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my…