Malala Yousafzai
When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.Collection: Important
My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.Collection: Girl
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.Collection: Rivers
The Taliban should keep it in mind that one of us has to die one day. And if I die early, it does not matter. I will continue my campaign and I'm going back to Pakistan as soon as possible. And I want to be a politician. And, through politics, I am going to serve my mission, and I'm going to work for education for every child.Collection: Children
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...Collection: Heartbroken
My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.Collection: Life
My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Girl
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.Collection: Children
I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.Collection: Brave
We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.Collection: Rights
I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.Collection: Motivational
Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. 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.Collection: Girl
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems, it's just one and it's education. You educate all the girls and boys. You give them the opportunity to learn.Collection: Girl
Education is the only solution. Education first.Collection: Firsts
Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.Collection: Struggle
Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.Collection: Children
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.Collection: Daughter
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.Collection: Book
I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.Collection: Daughter
You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?Collection: Leadership
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.Collection: Mother
I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.Collection: Answers
If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education.Collection: Fighting
She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.Collection: Powerful
I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.Collection: Dream
I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.Collection: Badass
Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.Collection: Girl
If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?Collection: Beach
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.Collection: Skin Color
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.Collection: Teacher
We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girlsCollection: Girl
I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha.Collection: Daughter
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.Collection: Book
Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.Collection: Powerful
I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, 'OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.'Collection: Girl
I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.Collection: Girl
My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'Collection: Suicide
If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.Collection: Children
When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.Collection: Joy
I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.Collection: Thinking
They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any placeCollection: Home
There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it by ourselves. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women’s rights, but I am focusing on women to be independent and fight for themselves.Collection: Independent
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him.Collection: Hate
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.Collection: Girl
I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.Collection: Daughter
I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.Collection: Important
If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.Collection: School