Ban Ki-moon Quotes

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

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

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.

The state doesn’t own your children. The parents do.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

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

The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo.

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

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

I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?

Conceit of the anti-gay law in Russia is to protect children, then the people who have the most to fear are LGBT parents. And sure enough, in conjunction with the homosexual propaganda law, they instituted a ban on adoptions by same-sex couples, or single people from countries where same-sex marriage is legal. That has very scary potential for any LGBT person with adopted kids, because Russian courts practice this particular legal concept called "annulment of adoption." So an adopted child is never exactly the same as a biological child, even if he or she was adopted ten years ago.

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.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

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

I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

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

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.

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.