Waris Dirie Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

  Waris Dirie

  Girl, Baby, Children

• Well, of course there’s my own experience of being mutilated as a little child. Having gone through this cruel practice and all the long-term consequences that come with it, I just cannot sit back and watch it being done to thousands of little girls every year. I believe that it is my responsibility to use the attention I get to fight against the continuing practice of FGM.

  Waris Dirie

  Girl, Children, Believe

  Interview with Ryan Kohls, whatiwannaknow.com. January 27, 2012.

• I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

  Waris Dirie

  Children, Fighting, Rights

• We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

  Waris Dirie

  Children, Independent, Men

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