Bill Moyers Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I will do everything possible to stop crimes against children.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

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.

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.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

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

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed ... it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.

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

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.