Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban – to finally achieve status and power.
I didn’t write anything about it in my diary. If they had caught us they would have flogged or even slaughtered us as they had Shabana. Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes – in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.
Why should I lose character for a few metal trinkets?
When you are caught between military and militants, there is no good.
Eid happens twice a year – Eid ul-Fitr or “Small Eid” marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or “Big Eid” commemorates the Prophet Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail to God.
I love my God. I thank my Allah. I talk to him all day. He is the greatest. By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities. 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.
Microphones made me feel as if I were speaking to the whole world. I had talked to only local TV stations and newspapers, but, still, I felt as if the wind would carry my words, the same way it scatters flower pollen in the spring, planting seeds all over the earth.
Un copil, un profesor, un stilou, o carte pot schimba lumea.
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.
I started writing my own speeches and changing the way I delivered them, from my heart rather than from a sheet of paper.
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.
People prayed to God to spare me, and I was spared for a reason – to use my life for helping people.
In my part of the world most people are known by their sons. I am one of the few lucky fathers known by his daughter.
It was because of Benazir that girls like me could think of speaking out and becoming politicians. She was our role model. She symbolized the end of dictatorship and the beginning of democracy as well as sending a message of hope and strength to the rest of the world.
I immediately understood the extent of my privilege: Where I saw so many problems, they saw opportunities.
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.
As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be.
It’s horrible to feel unworthy in the eyes of your parents.
The Pashton took revenge after twenty years and another said it was taken too soon.
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 realise how miraculous our senses are until we lose one. A Talib had fired 3 shots at point-blank range at 3 girls in a school bus – and none os us was killed. One person had tried to silence me. And millions spoke out. Those were miracles too.