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 slavery.

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

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

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.

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.