Kailash Satyarthi quotes for UPSC

3 sourced quotes by Kailash Satyarthi on equality & social justice, courage, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.

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I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

— Kailash SatyarthiKailash Satyarthi’s crusade to save childhood continues… (2014)

Use itGS4: standing against social evils as a moral examination.

Courage Ethics & MoralityGS4Interview

Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.

— Kailash SatyarthiAs quoted in "Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize" by Alan Cowell and Declan Walsh, in The New York Times (

Use itGS2: child labour–poverty–illiteracy nexus; poverty is no excuse for exploitation.

Equality & Social Justice Economy, Development & PovertyEssayGS1GS2

Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system — all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

— Kailash Satyarthi"Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize" by Alan Cowell and Declan Walsh, in The New York Times (10 October 20

Use itGS2: bonded labour and Gandhi's last-man test; structures protecting exploiters.

Equality & Social Justice Justice & Rule of LawEssayGS2GS4