Kailash Satyarthi quotes

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate recognized for his work in combating child labor and advocating children's rights. His tireless efforts have led to the rescue of thousands of children from exploitation and bonded labor. He continues to inspire global movements for the protection and education of children. Here are 52 of his quotes:

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

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

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

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It [Nobel Peace Prize] is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.

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My mother saw me being attacked. She cried when I left engineering for this cause. She understood my fight, encouraged me. I remember all those who were with me in this struggle, including two colleagues who were killed. Whenever I free children from slavery and take them back to their mothers, the tears of happiness in their eyes are like blessings of God. When I see the faces of liberated children, I find their smile of freedom divine and it gives me divine strength. I never feel I'm liberating them, rather it feels like they're giving me freedom.

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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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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.

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

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We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.

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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.

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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.

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Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners ... I believe in Gandhi's philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

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It was a passion from my childhood to work for children, I carried it forward. 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.

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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.

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

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

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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

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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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Consumers can boycott goods and services that involve children in manufacturing products. Don't accept hospitality from eateries and from shops employing children. Have the courage to tell them that you refuse to take their services because they employ children, which is a crime. This will put psychological pressure on the industries too. Demand a guarantee from shops you visit that they don't employ children. Use social media to prevent exploitation.

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If I was not fighting against child labor, I don't know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that.

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People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from children. I can learn transparency from children. They're innocent and straightforward.

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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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