Quotes About Child Labour

#1. Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

#2. Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Noreena Hertz

#3. In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them ... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them ... '

Brian Eno

#4. India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Anand Sharma

#5. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.

Juan Somavia

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

Kailash Satyarthi

#7. There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Kailash Satyarthi

#8. Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

Craig Kielburger

#9. We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

Kailash Satyarthi

#10. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Kailash Satyarthi

#11. I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

Kailash Satyarthi

#12. More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Kailash Satyarthi

#13. I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

Kailash Satyarthi

#14. It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

Carol Bellamy

#15. An estimated hundred billion star systems make up the Milky Way galaxy, and astronomers believe that all are orbited by an average of at least one planet.

Edward O. Wilson

#16. I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott

#17. Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be

Kenji Miyazawa

#18. I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

Thierry Boutsen

#19. My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents,
so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.
Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep
as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"
-from "My Aquarius

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. Ramona wasn't at home anywhere. She felt like a spy in life and the ending of every great book and each orgasm, and the sight of every homeless shopping bag lady infected her with a titanic yearning for the world to make an unscheduled stop.

Ann Druyan

#21. When you found yourself carrying another life inside you, and you were only a child yourself, you'd automatically forget all about the grunts and pains of labour. What had truly conquered your whole thoughts then were the shock, shame and panic.

Diyar Harraz

#22. Every great achiever knows the power of motivation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

Haile Selassie

#24. Save yourself for my sake. And I will go with you to the end of the world.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.

Robin Hobb

#27. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

Lisa Wingate

#28. [U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.

Sandor Marai

#29. You don't know anything about your kind, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?" "Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much ... " Isabelle made a face at him.

Cassandra Clare

#30. You teach best that which you need most to learn.

Richard Bach

#31. I grab
a small container
of glitter.
Because this day,
this wonderful,
beautiful,
glorious day
just wouldn't be complete
without a little,
or a lot, of
g i t r
l t e

Lisa Schroeder

#32. Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: I'm so happy with you, la, la ...

Judith Ivory

#33. If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

Kang Youwei

#34. We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

Carol Bellamy

#35. New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Carol Bellamy