Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eglantyne Jebb

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Eglantyne Jebb was a British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of the First World War to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany. She drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

August 25, 1876 - December 17, 1928

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

Eglantyne Jebb

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

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

Eglantyne Jebb

All wars are waged against children

Eglantyne Jebb

Every war is a war against children.

Eglantyne Jebb

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

Eglantyne Jebb

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

Eglantyne Jebb

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

Eglantyne Jebb

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

Eglantyne Jebb