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“If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.”

Ifs Children Asks Sky India West

Author:Mother Teresa

“Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.”

Children Dies Social Wealth India Importance Reform Spite Social Reform

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“When we think about millions of hungry children, we don't think about America. We relate the problem to other nations, like Ethiopia, India or Somalia. The sad truth is that one is five American kids is at risk due to poor nutrition.”

Thinking Children Problem Kids America Nations Poor Millions Five Risk Truth Is India Hunger Dues Hungry Relate Nutrition Ethiopia Sad Truth Somalia

Author:Kristin Davis

“Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.”

Thinking Children Country Problem Reality Together America Suffering Millions India South Hunger Our Country Tragic Working Together South America

Author:Beverly Johnson

“In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.”

Humans Children Inspiration Young Purpose Motivation Three Names Human Beings Four Labor India Slavery Trade Organs Adoption Globes Camels

Author:Sunitha Krishnan

“It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.”

World Children Soul Ends Country Life Is Land Rocks Century India Manners Shock Immortal Customs Invasion Indestructible Upheaval Stand Firm

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.”

Children Ambition Decided India Cycles Avoiding Amusement Cunning Elders Bicycle My Ambition Provoked Atlas

Author:Dervla Murphy

“For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.”

Children Government Age School Law Example India Safety Legislation Workplace Completion Compulsory Unicef Workplace Safety

Author:Carol Bellamy

“Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me -- there is nothing between.”

People Ifs Children Today Mother Dies Left Numbers Millions Dying Concerned India Hunger Kill Me Destroyers Malnutrition

Book:Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others

Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others

“I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.”

World Years Children Problem Dies Women Water Work Careers Millions India Victim Clean Solve Invisible Around The World Nameless Clean Water Malaria Faceless World Bank Leprosy

Author:Sheryl Sandberg