Miles Franklin Quotes

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.

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

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

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

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.

We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual and cultural heritage. Specifically, we need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected. And we need to care for our young people, not allowing them to be robbed of hope and condemned to life on the streets.

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

Let's save all the children, save the babies, save the babies.

Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

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