Childhood Rights Quotes

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

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

There is no right more fundamental than the right to be born and reared with all the dignity the human person deserves.

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should enjoy that basic right to become an adult. Getting rid of childhood cancers is one effective way to reach that goal.

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

When it comes to children’s issues, children don’t vote.

Let girls be girls and not brides

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

The question of the protection of childhood [child labor legislation] is not a political one. It is not even an American question. It is just simply a humane problem in which all decent ... loving men and women should be deeply interested.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive—or don’t.

Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

All children deserve the best.

Boys and girls playing together: 4 lashes

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.