Craig Kielburger Quotes

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

No child should be born to work at the cost of his childhood and freedom..

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

Is there anything more important than a child?

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

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

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

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

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

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

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

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.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

Let all children come unto me.