Best Child Labour Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Edward reached out with his arms and embraced her, his heart filled with a mix of sadness and hope. He desperately wanted to believe her promise and hold on to her vow that they would be reunited soon. Still, young Edward’s life had been so full of disappointment that it was hard for him to believe his unfortunate circumstances might soon be ending. He clung to her, wishing she would never let him go.”

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Book:One More Life to Live

Source: One More Life to Live

“Right by the edge of the fractured pavement next to the uneven road circling the square sat a fifteen-year-old boy with a hard helmet. There's something wrong with a boy that age waiting to go to work. Sitting in a yoga pose, he had a piece of bread and some feta cheese in front of him next to a broken barrel filled with tar and wood. It was lit up, which would only mean it was there to keep him warm during the night.”

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Book:Tajrish

Source: Tajrish

“Hitherto, we have been told that our navy was the glory of the country, and that our maritime commerce and extensive manufactures were the mainstays of the realm. We have also been told that the land has its share in our greatness, and should be justly considered as the pride and glory of England. The Bank, also, has put in its claim to share in this praise, and has stated that public credit is due to it; but now, a most surprising discovery has been made, namely, that our superiority over other nations is owing to 300,00 little girls in Lancashire.”

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Author:William Cobbett

“Their tears should be they caused while playing and not been abused.”

Child Abuse Rape Child Labour Inhumane Treatment Zara Vote

Author:Zara Vote

“Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 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”

“If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.”

Ifs Children Form Ready Labor Agree Fundamentals March Not Ready Elimination Abusive Child Labor Child Labour

Author:Alexis Herman

“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.”

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Author:Carol Bellamy

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

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Author:Carol Bellamy

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

Ifs Children Ends Use Together Social Poverty Disease Labor Bounds Treatment End Times Ending Poverty Labor Day Child Labor Cheap Labor Child Labour

Author:Grace Abbott

“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.”

Humans Children War Use Human Beings Enemy Watches Information Television Army Raises Slave Labour Farms Capture Chemicals Ants Embarrassment Alarms Spray Fungi Livestock Child Labour

Author:Lewis Thomas

“...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.”

Children Kids Together Form Millions Worst Dangerous Acceptance Morality Engaged Labour Child Labour Decent Work

Author:Juan Somavia

“After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“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?”

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Book:Free The Children

Source: Free The Children

“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.”

Children Form Worst Labor Organization International Labour Legislation Adopted Prostitution Child Labor Child Labour

Author:Carol Bellamy

“What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.”

Humans Children Made Two Use Greater Female Machines Paid Competition Workers Males Following Factors Attractive Labour Capitalist Depressing Wages Employed Child Labour

Author:Clara Zetkin

“They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.”

Men Children States Use Law Voice Conditions Citizens Novelists Theme Labour Justify Flaws Human Condition Unjust Incompetent Inhuman Unjust Laws Warships Child Labour

Author:John Ralston Saul

“Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.”

Children Problem Social Growth Poverty Labor Population Unemployment Illiteracy Social Problems Population Growth Child Labor Child Labour Population Problem

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.”

Children Stills Ends Labor Slavery Remains Lifetime Child Labor Slave Labor Child Labour Slave Labour

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“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...'”

People Ifs Want Children Problem Would Be Economy Century Foundation Labour Free Market 19th Century Market Economy Kidnapped Child Labour

Author:Brian Eno

“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.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

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