Quotes about children
children poverty united-states
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. Marian Wright Edelman
children character sleep
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
children nice reality
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction
children people matter
Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
children cutting fighting
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
children lying book
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.
children years america
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
children party school
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
children america justice
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 and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
children people helping
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help...
children past long
Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
children courageous injustice
Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
children
Let all children come unto me.
children adults vote
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
children community needs
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
children doe tall
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
children responsibility fighting
When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.
children kids care
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
children gun thinking
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.
children educational rights
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
children drinking white
I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
children promise mankind
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
children community
I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.
children luxury issues
Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
children gun years
Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
children people social-justice
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
children
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
children struggle light
It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.
children careers two
I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
children capacity-to-love inspire
My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love. Maria Canals Barrera
children husband grateful
I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.
children half-empty cups
Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty. Maria Bamford
children kids years
When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children. Marge Schott