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Best Children Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
- If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
- Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
- Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest…
- Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival,…
- A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
- Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
- I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to…
- I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high…
- 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…
- Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems,…
- 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…
- There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry,…
- It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear…
- 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…
- The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you.…
- If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and…
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