Kailash Satyarthi Quotes

• The single aim of my life is that every child is:
  free to be a child,
  free to grow and develop,
  free to eat, sleep, see daylight,
  free to laugh and cry,
  free to play,
  free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.

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  Dream, Children, School

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• There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

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  Dream, Children, Violence

  "Climate change and the value of daring" by Joseph Robertson, David Thoreson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

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  Positive, Beauty, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Kailash Satyarthi from Jul 09, 2015

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• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

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  Stronger, Quests, Slavery

  "Climate change and the value of daring" by Joseph Robertson, David Thoreson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Humanity, Fundamentals, Wipe

  "Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace prize" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Children, Army, World

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• India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

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  India, Problem, Solutions

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• A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

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  Children, Slave Labor, Slavery

  "Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2014.

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• For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?

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  Teacher, Taught Us, Parent

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• Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

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  Children, Population Problem, Growth

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• 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 amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

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  Children, Responsibility, Political Will

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. October 10, 2014.

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• We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

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  Children, Adults, Way

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• 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 to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

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  Children, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

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  Making Money, Commodity, Equity

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• 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 creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

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  Children, Military, School

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• I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

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  Humanity, Gone, Prize

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• I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

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  Thinking, Evil, Humanity

  "Kailash Satyarthi's crusade to save childhood continues; 60 mn still need him" by Kumkum Das Gupta, www.hindustantimes.com. October 10, 2014.

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• During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

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  Children, Past, Years

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• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

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  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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