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

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.

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

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

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

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

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?

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

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.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

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.

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

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

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