Plight of the Child International

15/04/2026

Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.

-- Hector Elizondo

14/04/2026

Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay -- it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

-- Marian Wright Edelman

14/04/2026

14/04/2026

Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay -- it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

-- Marian Wright Edelman

13/04/2026

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

-- Marian Wright Edelman

13/04/2026

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

-- Marian Wright Edelman

12/04/2026

The only way children can learn the habit of forgiveness is by seeing us, their parents, forgive others and forgive ourselves.

-- Naomi Drew

12/04/2026

"The greatest gift we can give to our children is to raise them in a culture of peace."

-- Louise Diamond

08/04/2026

The ultimate test of a moral society
is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

06/04/2026

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

-- Grace Lee Boggs