Top 100 Quotes About Malala
#1. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.
Malala Yousafzai
#2. Maybe you accidentally bought this thinking it was the Malala book.
Mindy Kaling
#3. Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but Malala's voice was like a crescendo. It spread all around the world. She was the smallest but her voice was the biggest, because she was speaking for herself.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#4. I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams.
Malala Yousafzai
#5. Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.
Malala Yousafzai
#6. [Taliban spokesman on Malala Yousafzai]
Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam. She was against Islam and we tried to kill her, and if we get a chance again we will definitely try to kill her, and we will feel proud killing her.
Shahidullah Shahid
#8. On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
Malala Yousafzai
#9. The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.
Malala Yousafzai
#11. Isn't it a miracle you all happened to be here when Malala was shot?" said my father. "It is my belief God sends the solution first and the problem later," replied Dr. Javid. My
Malala Yousafzai
#12. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And she'd say 'it is so-so, you should change this and this ... ' I trusted her wisdom.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#13. In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.
Theodore Beale
#14. People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#15. With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
Ban Ki-moon
#16. I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid - if you are afraid, you can't move forward.
Malala Yousafzai
#17. We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#18. People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.
Malala Yousafzai
#19. I said to myself, 'Malala, be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.
Malala Yousafzai
#20. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#21. The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.
Sarah Gavron
#22. Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights
Malala Yousafzai
#23. Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.
Megan Smith
#25. Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'
Malala Yousafzai
#26. Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
Malala Yousafzai
#28. It is my belief God sends the solution first and the problem later, replied Dr. Javid.
Malala Yousafzai
#29. Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Malala Yousafzai
#30. I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
Malala Yousafzai
#31. My mother had no education and perhaps that was the reason that she always encouraged us to go to school. 'Don't wake up like me and realise what you missed years later,' she says. She
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#33. I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
Malala Yousafzai
#34. I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.
Malala Yousafzai
#36. My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.
Malala Yousafzai
#37. Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education.
Malala Yousafzai
#38. I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
Malala Yousafzai
#39. If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Malala Yousafzai
#41. Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves.
Malala Yousafzai
#43. So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children's rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.
Malala Yousafzai
#46. The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
#47. Let us pick up our books and our pens," I said. "They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#48. As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be.
Malala Yousafzai
#49. So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai
#50. It is my belief that God sends the solution first and the problem later.
Malala Yousafzai
#51. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
#52. Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
Malala Yousafzai
#56. Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield.
Malala Yousafzai
#57. Then our voices will only multiply even if we are dead. We can't disown our campaign! People
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#58. If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.
Malala Yousafzai
#59. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
Malala Yousafzai
#60. I knew that any of the girls in my class could have achieved what I had achieved if they had had their parents' support.
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#62. We can sit by and hope the government will help, but they won't. If I can help support one or two children and another family supports one or two, then between us we can help them all.
Malala Yousafzai
#63. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
Malala Yousafzai
#64. Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes - in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.
Malala Yousafzai
#65. He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: A child is a child when he's a child, even if he's a prophet.
Malala Yousafzai
#66. Money poured in from all over the Arab world, particularly Saudi Arabia, which matched whatever the US sent, and volunteer fighters too, including a Saudi millionaire called Osama bin Laden.
Malala Yousafzai
#67. I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
Malala Yousafzai
#68. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education
Malala Yousafzai
#69. In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
Malala Yousafzai
#70. And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.
Malala Yousafzai
#71. I want world leaders to choose books over bullets ... We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility.
Malala Yousafzai
#72. My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
Malala Yousafzai
#75. You should believe in your talent and potential. Never lose hope.
Malala Yousafzai
#76. Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
Malala Yousafzai
#77. I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
Malala Yousafzai
#78. Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
Malala Yousafzai
#79. How great God is! He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. But we don't realize how miraculous our senses are until we lose one.
Malala Yousafzai
#80. When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.
Malala Yousafzai
#81. I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Malala Yousafzai
#83. We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.
Malala Yousafzai
#85. We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Malala Yousafzai
#86. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.' I
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#88. Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
Malala Yousafzai
#89. Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.
Malala Yousafzai
#90. The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
Malala Yousafzai
#91. We were looking forward to democracy and now people asked, "If Benazir can die, nobody is safe." It felt as if my country were running out of hope.
Malala Yousafzai
#92. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#93. God won't give you marks if you don't work hard God showers us with his blessings, but he is honest as well
Malala Yousafzai
#94. A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
Malala Yousafzai
#95. Education is our right, I said. Just as it is our right to sing. Islam has given us this right and says that every girl and boy should go to school. The Quran says we should seek knowledge, study hard and learn the mysteries of our world.
Malala Yousafzai
#96. I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
Malala Yousafzai
#97. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
Malala Yousafzai
#98. Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
Malala Yousafzai
#99. I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each other, none of their governments ever completing a term and always accusing each other of corruption.
Malala Yousafzai
#100. I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world,
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