Children's Rights Quotes

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.

The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the 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.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Parents are responsible for the sexual education of their children.

I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has not ratified three main instruments, has not ratified the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and we could have so much richer a debate and dialogue on international human rights standards if the superpower would sign up to the agenda.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

The late Sir Horace Davy introduced a Bill, which proposed that father and mother should be acknowledged equal guardians of their children. This just and logical reform secured only nineteen votes in the House of Commons.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.

Forget they are white children. Forget they are black children. Just remember one thing. They are America's children.

I've been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17.

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

We should not be forced to give up our children's U.S. citizenship so that we can get a fuller measure of self-government.

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

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.