I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

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

My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.