It
is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~ Mother Teresa
*A society
is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American,
I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want
to do my part to rectify this terrible situation. -- Marlo
Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.
We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance.
When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope
at St. Jude -- a place where miracles can and do happen. --
Marlo Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance
at a life filled with love,
laughter, friends and family.
--
Marlo
Thomas
*I want
a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able
to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don’t want
images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And
if I want that, I had better do something about it. -- Emma
Thompson
“It’s
not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising
for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing
adverts on TV for all this crap that’s made by poor people in poor countries that
we sell our children who have too much? -- Emma
Thompson
The situation
of the world around us can be painted in a picture of the darkest possible colours.
On one hand, the arms race absorbs for deadly purposes 40 million dollars every
24 hours. On the other hand, immeasurable poverty affects the lives of three-quarters
of the men, women and children in the world around us. The efforts for disarmament
must therefore be an inextricable part of the efforts to solve the common problems
of our time, problems which ultimately involve our very survival, the possibility
to continue the human experiment." --
Inga Thorsson
"Yes,
I want to remind people that in the Indigenous Traditions, women are very important.
Not because we are told we are important but because we know that since forever
and always, we have had the power and the capacity to give birth, raise women
and men and to take care of the earth. It is today that I thusly give celebration
to all the women on Earth. I would like to ask my sisters to give up the thoughts
and actions of the word victim. We are no longer Victims & We are strong! I would
like to address an acknowledgement to each woman here today. We have the power
and that power is rising. Use it to preserve, teach, share, and raise our voices,
to save our children, our planet, our people, and our earth mother. Don't share
the things that have hurt us but share what can save us. Turn our scars into Stars!
Come together and reclaim what is inherently ours, the power to bring forth nurturing
Peace! May Peace Prevail!" -- Mary
Thunder
Children,
if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste
freedom, keep going. -- Harriet
Tubman
*"There
is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful
and safer world." ~ Ted
Turner
*
"Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see
into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are."
-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
*...just
a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would make a real
difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and
be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives. -- Desmond
Tutu
*...just
a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense
budgets would make a real difference in enabling God's
children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and
be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.
-- Desmond
Tutu
"I was really blown
away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children
via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that
I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring
and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired
by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children
by actually being there and being more involved." -- Liv
Tyler
*
Did
you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments
as they spend on the children of this world every year? -- Peter
Ustinov
We
should preserve in adults the confident and joyful attitude of small children
-- Patricia Verdugo Aguirre
*A small
child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having
access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over
the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
-- Abdoulaye Wade
*"Teaching
kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the
center of an education." -- Alice
Waters
"I
believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to
know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community
around them." --
Alice Waters
Change
the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum
and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food
and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to
our lives. -- Alice
Waters
*"Every
new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance
no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations.
Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger."
-- Rachel Weisz
*The kind
of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product
- it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they
could possibly be? -- Paul
Wellstone
*
"I fervently believe
that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people
look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures." --
Kanye West
*I want
to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look
at their futures." --
Kanye West
*
"Help us show children
around the world that we can make a difference together." -- Bradley
Whitford
“I
hope people will not think we are encouraging people to break the law. But our
actions should teach people, and children, to scrutinize laws against human life,
and they should be broken to prove a point.” -- Barbara
Wiedner
There is much to be
done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference,
a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom
will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with
anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they
are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled
we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality
of our freedom depends on theirs. -- Elie
Wiesel
My
cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more
secure future for our children and grandchildren. -- Simon
Wiesenthal
"Each child should
have the fundamental right, a constitutional right, whether it's a tribal constitutional
right, federal or state constitutional right. It's time we made our constitutions
have our children's rights in them so they can engage in those experiences that
he or she is most anxious to explore, because it is having the right to choose
that is truly indigenous to the democratic concept." -- David Wilkins, Lumbee
Tribe
*
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and
at play to be lives of joy and peace. -- Betty
Williams
Governments
do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only
do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed
to helping our world’s children, then we must begin to create solutions from the
bottom up. -- Betty
Williams
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very
day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing
this carnage to continue -- Betty
Williams
Your playing small doesn't
serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people
won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
-- Marianne Williamson
"A
new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage
of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared
at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing,
it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . .
educational superiority." -- Victoria
Woodhull
"Hundreds,
thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the
streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold,
vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown."
-- Victoria Woodhull
*Education
is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education
is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom. --
Oprah Winfrey
*My hope
for the planet is my children and grandchildren.
-- Joanne Woodward
*We bequeath
to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still
live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution
so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even
better. -- Rosalyn Yalow
If we are
to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we
must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours
is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children. --
Rosalyn Yalow
*We need
to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians
or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against
innocents, a war against children. -- Howard
Zinn
