Eglantyne Jebb Quotes

United Kingdom, Founder
August 25, 1876 – December, 17, 1928.

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 and Germany. She drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

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

Eglantyne Jebb
- Children
- War
- Unjust
We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

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- World
- Way
- Mean

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

Eglantyne Jebb
- Children
- Language
- Cry
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
Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

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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

Eglantyne Jebb
- World
- Moments
- Adventure
Every war is a war against children.

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- Children
- War
Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

Eglantyne Jebb
- Humanity
- Child

All wars are waged against children

Eglantyne Jebb
- Children
- War