«Innocent Children Victims of Aggression»

We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment … are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

Landon Pearson

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

Sir Roger Moore

it is clear that increasingly, children are targets, not incidental casualties, of armed conflict.

Graca Machel-Mandela

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults.

Olara Otunnu

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Jimmy Carter

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone’s responsibility. And it must be everyone’s concern.

Graca Machel-Mandela

Therefore my challenge to each of you ... is that you ask yourself what you can do to make a difference. And then take that action, no matter how large or how small. For our children have a right to peace.

Graca Machel-Mandela

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

Angelina Jolie

Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

Nelson Mandela

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

Sophia Loren

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

Louise Diamond

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

Graca Machel-Mandela

If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing that, when we save children, we save ourselves.

Margaret Mead