Kailash Satyarthi Messages

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

At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

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.

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.

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

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

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.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

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

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