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I was personally concerned and involved in child rights-related activities right from my childhood.
If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
Kailash Satyarthi’s crusade to save childhood continues… (2014)
We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless.
Times of India interview (2014)
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.
Interview with Nobel Media (2014)
We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
Times of India interview (2014)
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.
Kailash Satyarthi’s crusade to save childhood continues… (2014)
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.
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. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.
Times of India interview (2014)
Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.