Eglantyne Jebb

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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.
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Children
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Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Children
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The only international language in the world is a child's cry.
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Children
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Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Leadership
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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Children
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We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Mean
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Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
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Collection: Adventure
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Every war is a war against children.
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Children
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All wars are waged against children
- Eglantyne Jebb
Collection: Children