We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.
Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It’s your world and you can change it.
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.
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
And also I didn’t want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn’t want to see my life in that way.
I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
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.
If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can’t she also wear everything?
My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.
We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.
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.
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.
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When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.
I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.
In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.
We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, color, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.