"No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work."

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Source : "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Sec. Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

Hilda Solis

#Children Quotes #Inappropriate Quotes #Illegal Quotes

“I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide.”
“Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.”
“Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.”
“Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”

Source : Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.610, Head of Zeus
“Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”
“You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them.”
“The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage”

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