Let's March - Part I and II (answers)

Part I 1. The speaker feels honoured to recite a mantra from the ancient texts, Vedas. 2. The speaker describes his journey from India to Norway is a connect between the two centres of global peace and brotherhood, ancient and modern. 3. The terrible thing that the Sudanese child, who was kidnapped by extremist militia was forced to kill his friends and family as his first training lesson. 4. Satyarthi refuses to accept that (1) the world is so poor, when just one week of global military expenditure can bring all the children to classrooms (2) that all the laws and constitutions, police and judges are unable to protect our children, (3) that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. 5. The only aim in life for Kailash Satyarthi is that every child is free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep and see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play and learn, free to go to school and free to dream. 6. The signs of progress that the speaker mentions are reduced number of out-of-school children by half, reduced the number of child labourers by a third, reduced child mortality and malnutrition and have prevented millions of child deaths. 7. The social role the three daughters playing are rising up and choosing peace over violence, tolerance over extremism and courage over fear. Part II 1. The story of the lion and the bird teaches us that we should do our duty and not think of the result. 2. Millions of individuals eighteen years ago demanded a new international law for the abolition of the worst form of child labour. 3. The poor children stitch footballs but have never played with one, they harvest cocoa but have never tasted chocolate, they are kidnapped and dying of Ebola. 4. The eight year old girl's question shakes Mr.Satyarthi because her question is for everyone and how many girls will be allowed to go without rescue. 5. According to Satyarthi every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters. 6. Satyarthi challenges the passivity and pessimism surrounding children, he challenges the culture of silence and the culture of passivity and the culture of neutrality. 7. As a child Mr.Satyarthi had a vision of tomorrow. A vision of the cobbler boy sitting with him in his classroom. 8. The response of the boy's father was that he had never thought about it and that they were born to work. The answer made Satyarthi angry. 9. My vision of tomorrow is that every child live in a free world, to have good education, to travel freely. 10. Every child should have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, right to safety, right to dignity, right to equality and right to peace. 11. Mr.Satyarthi requests the listeners to put their hands close to their hearts, close their eyes and feel the child inside them. 12. According to Mr.Satyarthi thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Nelson Mandelas, and Martin Luther Kings are calling on us.