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

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

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.

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

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

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: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?

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 can sell it make money out of it