The child within

Enjoy the child that you once were, a part which still lies in your heart, and maybe a bit of which will always stay with you, against all the sanity of the world…

Children are the empty vessels in which adults fill their poison. – Salman Rushdie
We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear. – Nelson Mandela
In spite of everything I still believe that there is goodness in the world. – Anne Frank in ‘The diary of Anne Frank’
Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. – Mohandas Gandhi
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. – Nelson Mandela
We (adults) are mere ghosts of our past, seeking illusions of the future, unfortunately forgetting the present. – Victor Truth
If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand up for much. – Marian Wright Edelman
Teach (then expect) a child to do the right thing, always, and he certainly will. – Victor Truth
It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. – Frank Warren
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. – Emma Goldman
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. – Charles Dickens

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