Let Us Globalise Compassion, and Set Our Children Free Friends, the Nobel Committee generously invited me to deliver a lecture.” Respectfully, I am unable to do that. I represent here the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I have come here to share the voices and dreams of our children, our children, because they are all our children. I have looked into their frightened and exhausted eyes. And I have heard their urgent questions: Twenty years ago, in the foothills of the Himalayas, I met a small, skinny boy. He asked me: Is the world so poor that it cannot give me a toy and a book, instead of forcing me to take a tool or gun?” I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms. I refuse to accept that all the laws and constitutions, and the judges and the police are not able to protect our children. I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. I REFUSE TO ACCEPT. I challenge the passivity and pessimism surrounding our children. I challenge this culture of silence, this culture of neutrality. The whole speech : nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/satyarthi-lecture_en.html Congratulations to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai who yesterday recieved the Nobel Peace Prize 2014! Kailash has been working his whole life to free children from child labor. He and his organisation Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA/ Save the Childhood Movement) has freed as many as 80 000 kids. If you want to listen to his speech you can find it below, starting at 39 min in the video.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:38:18 +0000
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