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Children 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.
- Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be…
- Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that…
- When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or…
- 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.
- 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…
- When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing…
- Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
- What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and…
- 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…
- So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and…
- Let all children come unto me.
- Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
- Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
- I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help...
- Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
- Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
- As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and…
- It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock…
- The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
- God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
- We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says…
- Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
More Children Quotes
- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon