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Kailash Satyarthi
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„I was personally concerned and involved in child rights-related activities right from my childhood.“
„We are going to organise End Child Slavery Week from 19th November to 25th November, and that would be an annual event“
„First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.“
„Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children“
„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.“
„My mother saw me being attacked. She cried when I left engineering for this cause. She understood my fight, encouraged me. I remember all those who were with me in this struggle, including two colleagues who were killed. Whenever I free children from slavery and take them back to their mothers, the tears of happiness in their eyes are like blessings of God. When I see the faces of liberated children, I find their smile of freedom divine and it gives me divine strength. I never feel I’m liberating them, rather it feels like they’re giving me freedom.“
„I work in 144 countries. I work in Africa with equal passion, in Latin America with equal passion. I’ve worked in Pakistan with equal passion. So it is a global fight. But I’m proud that India is where this fight began and it began through me. Then, it spread to other countries. We are born in the land of the Mahatma where solutions are made with peace and non-violence. I’ve been working 100% through non-violent means. I strongly believe in the principles of peace in all my fight.“
„It [Nobel Peace Prize] is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn’t just about India. It’s a global phenomenon. We’ll work for this globally. I’ve been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world’s children.“
„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.“
„Consumers can boycott goods and services that involve children in manufacturing products. Don’t accept hospitality from eateries and from shops employing children. Have the courage to tell them that you refuse to take their services because they employ children, which is a crime. This will put psychological pressure on the industries too. Demand a guarantee from shops you visit that they don’t employ children. Use social media to prevent exploitation.“
„It was a passion from my childhood to work for children, I carried it forward. 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.“
„You have given the great honour … to hundreds of millions of children in the world who are deprived of their childhood and health and education, and fundamental right to freedom. It is a great moment for all those children.“
„If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.“
„We work against a social evil. If this evil isn’t reacting it means we aren’t a threat.“
„I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children.“
„If I was not fighting against child labor, I don’t know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that“
„We work with broken families and broken people who’ve lost hope and are helpless.“
„People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from children. I can learn transparency from children. They’re innocent and straightforward.“