I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

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

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

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.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

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.