„According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Most are found. Thousands are not.“

— Stephen King

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„Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.“
— Barack Obama
„Every year thousands of people, mostly children and poor farmers, are killed in the Plain of Jars in Northern Laos“
— Noam Chomsky
„Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children“
— Kailash Satyarthi
„In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.“
— John Ruskin
„Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That’s about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today’s even greater scourge?“
— Jimmy Carter