Children Quote by Forest Whitaker

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

— Emmanuel Jal

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

— Emmanuel Jal

We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we're no longer in the military. All this 'once a soldier, always a soldier', that's all…

— Ant Middleton

More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities,…

— Romeo Dallaire

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an…

— Forest Whitaker

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

— Ishmael Beah

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

— Emmanuel Jal

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

— Emmanuel Jal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions…

— William A. Connelly

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a…

— Mark Dayton

In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother…

— Deborah Ellis