No Child Labour Quotes

#1. New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Carol Bellamy

#2. Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Noreena Hertz

#3. Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

#4. I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

Kailash Satyarthi

#5. 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.

Kailash Satyarthi

#6. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Kailash Satyarthi

#7. We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

Kailash Satyarthi

#8. Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

Craig Kielburger

#9. There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Kailash Satyarthi

#10. We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

Haile Selassie

#12. Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Kailash Satyarthi

#13. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.

Juan Somavia

#14. India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Anand Sharma

#15. In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them ... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them ... '

Brian Eno

#16. I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott