Kailash Satyarthi Quotes
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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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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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
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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.
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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.
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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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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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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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Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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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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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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We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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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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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.