Top 100 Yousafzai Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. [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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.
Megan Smith
#9. Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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#10. 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.
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#12. It is my belief God sends the solution first and the problem later, replied Dr. Javid.
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#13. Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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#14. I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
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#15. 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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#16. 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
#18. 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.
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#19. I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.
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#21. I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams.
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#22. My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.
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#23. Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#32. The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
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#33. 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.
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#34. As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be.
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#35. 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.
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#37. It is my belief that God sends the solution first and the problem later.
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#38. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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#39. 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.
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#43. Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield.
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#44. Then our voices will only multiply even if we are dead. We can't disown our campaign! People
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#45. If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.
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#46. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
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#48. 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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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.'
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#53. Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes - in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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#64. You should believe in your talent and potential. Never lose hope.
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#65. Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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#66. I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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#67. Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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#68. 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.
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#69. When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.
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#70. I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
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#72. We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.
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#74. 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.
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#75. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.' I
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#77. Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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#78. 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.
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#79. The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
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#80. 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.
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#81. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
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#82. God won't give you marks if you don't work hard God showers us with his blessings, but he is honest as well
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#86. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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.
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#90. I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world,
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#91. In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education ... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
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#92. But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.
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#93. If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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#94. Our news bulletins were full of killings and death, so it was natural for Atal to think of coffins and graves. Instead of hide-and-seek and cops and robbers, children were now playing army vs. Taliban.
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#95. We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don't really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.
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#96. Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.
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#97. Sometimes Fazlullah appeared galloping in on a black horse. His men stopped health workers giving polio drops, saying the vaccinations were an American plot to make Muslim women infertile so that the people of Swat would die out.
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#99. I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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#100. Why send a daughter to school?" the men often say. "She doesn't need an education to run a house.
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