Child Labor Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi
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
A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime. — Kailash Satyarthi
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
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
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
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. — Michael Moore
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
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
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking. — Malala Yousafzai
In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor. — Malala Yousafzai
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: