Malalai Joya Quotes

#1. If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.

Malalai Joya

#2. People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

Malalai Joya

#3. The winner of this election will be like same donkey, new saddle.

Malalai Joya

#4. Feeling his heart, it occurs to me that it beats just like everyone else's. Like mine.

Sophie Jordan

#5. Once upon a time ...
A journey began,
that would stitch all the worlds together with light.

Laini Taylor

#6. It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.

Amy Bloom

#7. To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Robert Graves

#8. People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.

Malalai Joya

#9. But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

Eleanor Catton

#10. I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

Malalai Joya

#11. This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#12. Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.

Mike Cooley

#13. Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

Malalai Joya

#14. They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

Malalai Joya

#15. Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

Malalai Joya

#16. We are only as sick as our secrets.

Rob Bell

#17. Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Margaret Mahy

#19. I put my hands into the pockets of all his jackets

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. It doesn't matter who's voting, it matters who's counting.

Malalai Joya

#21. You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

Gary B.B. Coleman

#22. I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

Malalai Joya

#23. It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#24. Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

Malalai Joya

#25. Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Martin L. Gross