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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I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’ But then ...

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I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

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The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

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read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things c...

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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.

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I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

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Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'

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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