Malala Yousafzai Quotes

Education is the only solution. Education first.

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.

We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.

As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.

I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

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

My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.