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.
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.
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.
Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!
We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don’t really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.
Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential.
Education is the power terrorists fear most.
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
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.
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
Education is the only solution. Education first.
I had two options One was to remain silent and wait to be killed and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
They only shot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.