Kailash Satyarthi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Beautiful #Children #Mean
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Stronger #Quests #Slavery
During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Past #Years
A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Lifetime #Child Labor
There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Dream #Children #Violence
ForÂ 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?
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Teacher #Parent #Taught
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.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Philosophy #Thinking
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.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Military #School
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Growth #Population
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Humanity #Gone #Prize
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Humanity #Suffering
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
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Thinking #Evil #Humanity
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

#Humanity #Fundamentals #Wipe
India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#India #Problem #Solutions
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
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Making Money #Commodity #Equity
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.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Army #World
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Children #Adults #Way
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.
-- Kailash Satyarthi

#Dream #Children #School

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