Eglantyne Jebb Quotes

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

All wars are waged against children

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

Every war is a war against children.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

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.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds