My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat,… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
