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

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

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

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?

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.

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.