The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.
Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.
Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
The only international language in the world is a child's cry.
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.