Malala Yousafzai Quotes

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Malala Yousafzai

Profession : Activist

Birth : July 12, 1997

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

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

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

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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?

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

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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.

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I want to make this world perfect.

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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

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I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

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I need to complete my homework on time.

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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

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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.

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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

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