Quotes by Kailash Satyarthi

About Kailash Satyarthi:

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (lit. Save the Childhood Movement) in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries. It is largely because of Satyarthi's work and activism that the International Labour Organization adopted Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour, which is now a principal guideline for governments around the world.
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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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Kailash Satyarthi

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Kailash Satyarthi

India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

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

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Kailash Satyarthi

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

Kailash Satyarthi

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Kailash Satyarthi

Today, 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.

Kailash Satyarthi

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

Kailash Satyarthi

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

Kailash Satyarthi

Author Bio

  • NameKailash Satyarthi
  • DescriptionIndian children's rights activist
  • AliasesKailash Sharma
  • BornJanuary 11, 1954
  • CountryIndia
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Wallenberg Medal; Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award