Our Children Quotes - Page 26

• To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

  June Jordan

  Love, Hurt, Children

  1978 Keynote address for Child Welfare League of America. Collected as 'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Children, School

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• We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.

  Bernard Lown

  Children, Issues, Rights

  Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.

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• I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

  Holly Near

  Children, Selfish, Believe

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• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Country, Children

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Children, Energy, Culture

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• There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, Opportunity, Reality

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• My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be satisfied that at least I tried. I know I can make a difference, even if it might only be a small one.

  Maisie Shiell

  Children, Health, Differences

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• It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, World, Helping

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• It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

  Emma Thompson

  Country, Children, People

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• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  Paul Wellstone

  Children, Thinking, People

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• We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

  Betty Williams

  Children, Work, Home

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

  Geoffrey Holder

  Inspirational, Children, Teaching

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• Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Mistake, Eugenics

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

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• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Should Have, Fatherhood

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• See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Teaching, Science

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• Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Children, Love You

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• This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Community, Matter

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 20, 2004.

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• Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, School, Trying

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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• I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.

  Debra Messing

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  "‘Will & Grace’ Stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing Reunite To Support The Trevor Project". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Country, Money

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• By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.

  Joseph Lowery

  Children, Teaching, White

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• God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Gratitude, Children, Blessed

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