Top 41 Quotes by Kailash Satyarthi

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

Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

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

India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

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

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.

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.

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.