Kailash Satyarthi Inspirational Quotes To Motivate You
As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
Friends, the biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humanity today is intolerance.
I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
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.
I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.
I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
Let us march from darkness to light. Let us march from mortality to divinity. Let us march!”
Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
My dear sisters and brothers, may I ask you to close your eyes and put your hand close to your heart for a moment? Can you feel the child inside you? Now, listen to this child. I am sure you can!”
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
The single aim of my life is that every child is
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.”
Twenty years ago, in the foothills of the Himalayas, I met a small, skinny boy. He asked me ‘Is the world so poor that it cannot give me a toy and a book, instead of forcing me to take a tool or gun?
Whose children are they who stitch footballs, yet have never played with one? They are our children. Whose children are they who mine stones and minerals? They are our children. Whose children are they who harvest cocoa, yet do not know the taste of a chocolate? They are all our children.”
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