Kofi Annan Quotes

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

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

And if I could get the mayors, and the governors, and the president to look into the eyes of the five-year-olds of this nation, dressed in old raggedy clothes, whose zippers are broken but whose dreams are still alive, they would know what I know-that children need people to fight for them. To stand with them on the most dangerous streets, in the dirtiest hallways, in their darkest hours.

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

You don’t play around with the lives of children.

All children should have a chance to speak up for what matters to them, like school violence, and they should be encouraged to take action to end violence against children.

Children are truly the future of this country - our next teachers, they're our next doctors, they're our next police officers, and they're our next Members of Congress. It's our responsibility to do everything that we can to protect them and make sure that children are able to live, learn, and grow up in safe environments.

From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.

Is there anything more important than a child?

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.