Child Labor Quotes - Page 1

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
Malala Yousafzai / Journalist
Child Labor
India
Innocent
Labor
Poor
Child
Victims
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Malala Yousafzai / Journalist
Girl
Child Labor
Labor
Trafficking
Child
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You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Child Labor
Children
Slavery
Things
Just
Child
Wrong
Some
Regulate
Some Things
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Kailash Satyarthi / Activist
Child Labor
Growth
Illiteracy
Labor
Population
Population Growth
Poverty
Social
Social Problems
Unemployment
Child
Other
Problems
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We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
William Howard Taft / 27Th U.s. President
Bills
Child Labor
Children
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Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
Barack Obama / 44Th U.s. President
Child Labor
Children
Country
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It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
Dar Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Child Labor
Children
Slavery
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Twins work really well in the industry because child labor laws dictate a baby, as an example, can only work for, like, an hour a day.
Cole Sprouse /
Child Labor
Example
Labor
Twins
Dictate
Hour
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Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.
Asma Jahangir / Lawyer
Truth
Child Labor
Labor
Repercussions
Speak
Child
Frowned
Irrespective
Talked
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Kailash Satyarthi / Activist
Work
Child Labor
Crime
Humanity
Labor
Lifetime
Remains
Slavery
Lot
Against
Child
Itself
Here
Still
See
Stake
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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy / New York State Senator
Adopted
Child Labor
Children
International
Labor
Labour
Legislation
Organization
Worst
Child
Bonded
Forms
Hazardous
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If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Alexis Herman / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Future
Agree
Child Labor
Children
Elimination
Fundamentals
Labor
March
Ready
Most
Really
Begin
Then
Child
Forms
Forward
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My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!
Su-Chin Pak /
Cash
Child Labor
Downtown
Garden
Labor
Oakland
Register
Work Me Free
Cash Register
Looked
Restaurant
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner / Biologist
Abolish
Advantage
Child Labor
Children
Despite
Economic
Employed
Labor
Policy
Social
Child
National
National Policy
Removing
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Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
Rose Schneiderman /
Girl
Child Labor
Employing
Labor
Next
Child
Attack
Bosses
Meant
Course
Gradually
Immigrant
Intended
Place
Union
Raw
Rid
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott / Social Worker
Child Labor
Children
Disease
Labor
Labor Day
Poverty
Social
Together
Treatment
Use
Will
Child
End
Both
Bound
You
Continue
Inevitably
Time Together Children
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I started calling anti-child labor organizations, asking how I could help. They told me a kid couldn't make any difference, so I decided to start a movement for young people to fight child labor, and to prove them wrong.
Craig Kielburger / Activist
Asking
Calling
Child Labor
Decided
Labor
Movement
Prove
Young
Fight Me People
Child
Any
Fight Me Start
Me Start People
Could
Fight
Difference
Wrong
Organizations
Help
Start
Young People
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
Carol Bellamy / New York State Senator
Abuse
Child Labor
Children
Exploitation
Industry
Invisible
Labor
Labour
Scrutiny
Child
Also
Open
Public
Ensure
Export
Informal
Leaves
Sector
Thus
While
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When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he'd been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.
Craig Kielburger / Activist
Age
Attention
Carpet
Caught
Chained
Child Labor
Four
Including
Labor
Made
Slave
Child
Since
Been
He
First
Read
Crusade
Escaped
Factory
Global
Led
Loom
Where
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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
Ingrid Newkirk / Activist
Experience
Women
Attention
Child Labor
Children
Desire
Labor
Pain
Parental
Pay
Pay Attention
Rights
Slavery
Species
Theory
Child
Although
Quite
Show
Stopped
Clearly
Continue
Simply
Enslave
Human
Other
Recognized
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You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.
Debra Granik / Film Director
Child Labor
Country
Hey
Labor
Social
Social Change
Vote
Time Change Always
Child
Call
Change Time Always
Change Time People
First
Gotta
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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Work
Banking
Bargaining
Child Labor
Class
Collective Bargaining
Fabric
Foundation
Labor
Middle
Middle Class
Millions
Socialist
Strong
Unemployment
Week
Work People Way
Job
People Foundation Way
Child
Another
Become
Were
Collective
Nation
Deposit
Insurance
Programs
Put
Millions Of People
Regulations
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