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Child Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
- Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and…
- The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
- 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.
- The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of…
- Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
- Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand…
- I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I…
- Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin