"A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights."

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Source : "Child abuse and exploitation still a grim reality". Interview with Kanaha Sabapathy, www.radioaustralia.net.au. March 19, 2012.

Carol Bellamy

#Children Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Rights Quotes

“MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.”
“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”
“The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.”
“But does not happiness come from the soul within?”
“Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.”
“When I was little, I always sad that I wanted a brother, and now it's like having four of them!”
“I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.”
“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”

Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.36, Gallic Books

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