Kailash Satyarthi Quotes

India, Activist
January 11, 1954

Kailash Satyarthi (born Kailash Sharma; 11 January 1954) is an Indian children's rights activist. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (lit. Save Childhood Movement), the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Global March Against Child Labour, and GoodWeave International.

Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.

Kailash Satyarthi
- Children
- Trying
- Together
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
- World
- Children

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

Kailash Satyarthi
- Past
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
- Money
- Education
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?

Kailash Satyarthi
- Good
- Why
- Bad