Quotes by Malala Yousafzai

About Malala Yousafzai:

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Malala Yousafzai

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

Malala Yousafzai

I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

Malala Yousafzai

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

Malala Yousafzai

I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

Malala Yousafzai

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Malala Yousafzai

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

Malala Yousafzai

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.

Malala Yousafzai

Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

Malala Yousafzai

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

Malala Yousafzai

I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

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Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

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Author Bio

  • NameMalala Yousafzai
  • DescriptionPakistani children's education activist
  • AliasesGul Makai
  • BornJuly 12, 1997
  • CountryPakistan
  • ProfessionBlogger; Human Rights Activist; Memoirist
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Sakharov Prize; Simone De Beauvoir Prize; Honorary Canadian Citizenship; National Malala Peace Prize; Anna Politkovskaya Award; United Nations Prize In The Field Of Human Rights; European Human Rights Prize; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom From Fear; Philadelphia Liberty Medal; International Children's Peace Prize