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

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

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.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the 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 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

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.