Child Labor Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more…
— Carol Bellamy
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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…
— Grace Abbott
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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…
— Utah Phillips
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays…
— Michael Parenti
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it…
— Barry Commoner
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Christian socialismâ€). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who…
— Jonah Goldberg
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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous…
— Carol Bellamy
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Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence
— John Taylor Gatto
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.
— Kailash Satyarthi
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Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world…
— Bernie Sanders
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A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
— Kailash Satyarthi
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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.
— David Letterman
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If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not…
— Alexis Herman
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You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
— Michael Moore
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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women…
— Barbra Streisand
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
— Malala Yousafzai
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
— Malala Yousafzai
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end…
— Kailash Satyarthi
Who Wrote These Child Labor Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Child Labor Quotes as follows: