Christopher Hitchens Quotes

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

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.

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.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

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

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

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

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.

I have no objection to doing anything that is within the law to help children.

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.

We must do everything we can to ensure the safety of our children.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

For too long, Ireland has neglected its children.

Is there anything more important than a child?

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

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

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

My mom started understanding how many people take advantage of a child, so she hired smart people to protect me in that way. I'm happy that when I was younger, people protected me and put me in a position where I can now control my music.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

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