Children Quote by Marian Wright Edelman

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

— Chinua Achebe

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

— Marian Wright Edelman

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

— Mike DeWine

We all need to be a part of the fight against injustice, insecurity and irresponsibility towards children and the world.

— Choi Si-won

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

— Alfie Kohn

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

— Maurice Sendak

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…

— Gertrude Stein

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

— Sandra Bullock

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

— Michele Bachmann

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

— Orson Scott Card