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.
Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
This is what my soul is telling me, be peaceful and love everyone.
You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.
If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?
I want poverty to end in tomorrow’s Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.
The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
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.