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

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

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

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

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.