Cases Quote by Maria Montessori

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

— Maria Montessori

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the…

— Lysander Spooner

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

— Frederick Douglass

“For a very long time, ever since men formed societies in which some people bossed others, children have fulfilled this very important function. Every…

— John Holt

Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority.…

— Gerry Spence

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and…

— William H. Seward

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men…

— Angelina Grimke

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

— Lucretia Mott

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued that both…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime…

— Maria Montessori