I want my country to be better than this.
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was rescued with his three siblings, aged one, six, and 11, and his mother and father after a military strike in Qaterji. - Syria, August 2016
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.
- Charlotte Gray (author and political commentator)
"I was using a telephoto lens, and [4-year-old Hudea] thought it was a weapon." - Turkish photojournalist, Osman Sağırlı, Atmeh refugee camp in Syria, December 2014
Saccharine and cliche?
Perhaps,
a bit,
but nevertheless accurate.
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