Child Slavery Quotes

#1. The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Kailash Satyarthi

#2. Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Kailash Satyarthi

#3. And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Mary Harris Jones

#4. The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.

Annie Dillard

#5. Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

Gerry Spence

#6. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Winston S. Churchill

#7. Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

Lysander Spooner

#8. TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

Tom Shadyac

#9. Many saints were made out of passionate sinners - the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful.

Peter Kreeft

#10. The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she's a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn't been a child since the day she was whipped into muteness. Anxiety might strangle her sometimes, but she's not some baby needing to be coddled.

Laura Kreitzer

#12. I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ...

Fanny Lewald

#13. It was the evangelicals who led the fight against slavery, child labor, poor factory conditions, and the abuse of the poor and the insane. Much of what we value in modern social legislation, and perhaps take for granted, grew out of the ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and their successors.

Warren W. Wiersbe

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

Albert Camus

#15. If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Kailash Satyarthi

#16. Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back ... child labor in mines or mills ... Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. If she could have achieved suicide, simply by willing it, she would have done it without hesitation.

J.K. Rowling

#18. There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#19. Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Ingrid Newkirk

#20. I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.

Patch Adams

#21. Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

Miles Franklin

#22. Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

Barack Obama

#23. You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

Michael Moore

#24. It's always easier to kill someone else's darlings than it is to kill your own.

Stephen King

#25. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

#26. Liberate your Mind Black Child ,free your self from Mental slavery.

Nkosinathi Mehlomakulu