Age Quote by Guy Ryder

Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world…

— Craig Kielburger

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is…

— Carol Bellamy

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to…

— Lewis Hine

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out…

— Juan Somavia

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to…

— Landon Pearson

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of…

— Brian Eno

“Development is the strategy of evasion. When you can’t give people land reform, give them hybrid cows. When you can’t send children to school,…

— Anonymous

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

— Carol Bellamy

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children?…

— Noreena Hertz

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with…

— Sarah Lancashire