Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb British humanitarian, founder of the Save the Children Fund and the International Save the Children Union, and author of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the League of Nations, 1924.

Attributed

• All wars, just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
• The only international language is a child’s cry.
• Relief work does not consist entirely ... in wearisome meetings, wearisome appeals, wearisome statistics, and a yet more wearisome struggle against uninteresting misery. It has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds.
• I believe we should claim certain Rights for the children and labour for their universal recognition, so that everybody - not merely the small number of people who are in a position to contribute to relief funds, but everybody who in any way comes into contact with children, that is to say the vast majority of mankind - may be in a position to help forward the movement.
• It's Children who pay the highest price for our short sighted economic policy, our political blunders, our wars,