Malala Yousafzai Quotes

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Malala Yousafzai

Profession : Activist

Birth : July 12, 1997

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.

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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Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

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

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

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

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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

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Education is neither eastern nor western.

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Islam means peace.

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

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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

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

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

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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

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On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

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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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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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If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

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