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?

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

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.

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

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

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

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