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.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

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.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

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.

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

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

Through many tributions, we begin to search for the truth.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.

An upturned life is righted in the box.

I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.