Maria Montessori Quotes

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

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

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

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.

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

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

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.

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

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

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

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

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

World Children's Day is meant to be a fun celebration but it's also a day to talk about serious issues that children have to face in school.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

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.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

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.

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

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

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

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.