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Little children don't discriminate, judge or put labels on anyone. They are innocent and just know Love. Anyone who doesn't see the world as unconditionally as a child has not known God or the nature of God.
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I'd like to disagree with this statement.
Not that I have a problem with children, that simply isn't so.
But on a more innocent level I feel that yes they do discriminate and judge.
On an innocent level- think of a child at the dinner table served spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, liver, and they say to their parents- "What is this"? While picking up a bit of liver in their fork. Their mother tells them "Well that's liver honey". They proceed then to make a judgement- their own judgement and they say "Well I don't like it". So the mom asks "Well how do you know if you've never tried it"? Trust me. When I said I did not like liver as a child, I didn't like it. I know my personal tastes, and preferences.
I am no longer a child. I will still to this day not touch liver.
I will also not touch turkey or chicken gizzards, I will not consume rye bread,
And I will never ever touch lamb.
I knew each and every one of these things, after having tried them each while very young.
And you know what I did? I used my mind and formed by trying them my own judgments about them.
I found these things, in this example foods, dislike able to my personal taste. That my friend is a judgement.
Children in fact do make them all the time, it is a part of being domesticated.
Are most children prejudice? No, not at first. But they do become programmed by the opinions, the poison gossip, the curse words, the name calling they hear from those in their immediate environment, and yes they actually do form judgments. Early on even. Perhaps not as malicious as the judgments of adults, as when children are very young their judgments tend to be more normal, rational judgments that are healthy.
A good example of what I mean is when I was a child I didn't care for playing with dolls. I ended up cutting a lot of their hair attempting to style it, and becoming frustrated, not because I felt I was doing a bad job, but because for some odd reason I got it in my head I wanted to style their hair, but I had no ability to understand why. It was possibly a neighbor friend who told me this is something a girl would do with a doll.
But I was not fond of dolls, and actually pretty afraid of a lot of them. But I did have toys I did like. I liked small match box cars, I used to crash into each other in fake accidents, and then hold a funeral for them.... don't ask me why, I don't know, lol.
And I had a very big fondness for My Little Ponies. I preferred them to dolls.
These were judgments, and children do make them, over time, conditioning, and domestication, listening to the gossips, personal opinions, and hatreds of our parents- the judgments over time, are more than likely to become less of an innocent- I don't like peas, or barbies type thing.
My point? I don't feel children come the closest to unconditional love. The only thing I have found to perfect this is God.
And my next closest are not children, angels, nor cheribum alike, but animals.
I feel animals other than God are the very closest beings to unconditional love I've ever encountered.
My house cat never calls me names, hollers at me, gives me hateful glances, or tells me he thinks my outfit is ugly. He also never tells me where to go, what to do, whom to spend time with, and I simply don't have to put up with his personal opinion on anything.
But the biggest thing I respect about him, is he is honestly simply happy to see me, where everyone else is complaining in my ear, hollering, arguing religion or politics, name calling etc etc etc, ceaselessly.
Do I think he sits there and judges me? If he does I certainly don't have to hear about it, and he purrs the entire time, for whatever that means or is worth.
And my other point? Every human being judges. Even children, and yes imo even Jesus.
I have plenty of them in my Family. 
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