Kailash Satyarthi Quotes

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Kailash Satyarthi

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 11, 1954

From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

Kailash Satyarthi

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Kailash Satyarthi

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

Kailash Satyarthi

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

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.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Kailash Satyarthi

World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Kailash Satyarthi

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Kailash Satyarthi

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

Kailash Satyarthi