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 ….

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 sl….

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..

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..

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 a….

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:….

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions..

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking..

My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rheto….

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

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billio….

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, whi….

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.