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

- Kailash Satyarthi
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More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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