Malala Yousafzai

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Malala Day is not my day. It is the day of every girl and every boy. It is a day when we come together to raise our voices, so that those without a voice can be heard.

We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

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

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.

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

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

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.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

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

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

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.