QUOTES
"I
speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely
nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.”
"If
you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm As you get older you
must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second
hand is to help others."
"...perhaps
that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous
a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many
suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love.
Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?"
"Somebody
said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing.
There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just
prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is,
'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets
pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against
humanity-to think that way."
"It
makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting
all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible
for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the
unknowns, whose names you will never know…I at least get a dollar a year, but
they don't."
