Zitat des Tages von Kailash Satyarthi:
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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.
We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
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.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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.
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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.
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.
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.