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Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 1386(XIV) of 20 November 1959
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their
faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human
person, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of
life in larger freedom,
Whereas the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
proclaimed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth
therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other
status,
Whereas the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special
safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after
birth,
Whereas the need for such special safeguards has been stated in the Geneva
Declaration of the Rights of the
Universal Declaration of Human
and international organizations,
Whereas mankind owes,
Now therefore,

Children population < 18 2.213.456.000
Children population < 5 629.106.000
Annual no of under-5 deaths 9.216.000
Estimated no of children with HIV 2.000.000
Annual no of birds 135.770.000

A child's education
should begin at least one
hundred years before he
is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Maria Montessori

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover

Every child is an artist.
The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Pablo Picasso

The soul is healed by being with children
Fyodor Dostoyevski

According to the UN, a child dies
from a water-related disease
Every 15 seconds .

A child miseducated is a child lost.
English proverb

Children need models rather than critics
John F. Kennedy

Children require guidance and sympathy
far more than instruction.
Annie Sullivan

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for
what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
Marian Wright Edelman

A child learns to discard his ideals,
whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Austrian satirist

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must
have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Gaston Bachelard

There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world:
it is better than bombing one out of it.
James Baldwin

The distinctive character of a child is
to always live in the tangible present.
John Ruskin

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran

Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang
up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care
about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as
related to how we treat this planet.
Eda LeShan

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their
wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Sidonie Gruenberg

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
Maureen Hawkins

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Hoover

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
Pamela Glenconner

It is a wise father
that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de la Bruyère

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have
never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an
event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Wayne Dyer

Do not confine your children to your own learning,
for they were born in another time.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Chinese Proverb

Children are a poor man's riches.
English proverb

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back.
Bill Cosby

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companion-
ship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy,
excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worth-
while person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
Sidonie Gruenberg

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov

Having children makes you no more a parent than
having a piano makes you a pianist. Michael Levine

Children begin by loving their parents.
After a time they judge them.
Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark.
What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle
of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave
enthusiasm. Victoria Wagner

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you
have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us,
hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do
Garrison Keillor
for them is never wasted.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly.
In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk
Marian Wright Edelman
could make it without our mortgage reduction?

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
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