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 have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

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In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

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The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her cam...

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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's righ...

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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

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I need to complete my homework on time.

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Education is neither eastern nor western.

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I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

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Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for t...

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We need to increase education budgets.

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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

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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