Kailash Satyarthi Quotes

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Freedom is not enough.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.