I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results. — 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… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
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… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
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
