“Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be – the unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.”
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"All children, realizing my faults, would be glad to change me, to make me better. The poor youngsters cannot grasp the fact that my greatest fault is that I am no longer a child.”
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"A hundred children - a hundred people who are not 'maybe sometime', not 'not now,' not 'tomorrow' but are here and now, today. People who already exist."
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"If we are constantly astonished at the child's perceptiveness, it means that we do not take them seriously."
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"The market value of the very young is small. Only in the sight of God is the apple blossom worth as much as the apple - greens shoots as much as a field of ripe corn."
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"Children, let your dreams and aspirations be proud. Set your sights high. Try to win glory. Something will always come out of it."
