Able Quote by Romeo Dallaire

When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and…

— Forest Whitaker

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

— Emmanuel Jal

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

— Olara Otunnu

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

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade.…

— Arundhati Roy

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the…

— Walter Dean Myers

In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had…

— Forest Whitaker

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

— Cindy Sheehan

Children are under a relentless assault by all the forces of evil, and they are defenseless. And we have a society and a culture…

— John MacArthur

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

— Ishmael Beah

It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments,…

— Roméo Dallaire

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

— Karl Kraus