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?
Malala YousafzaiRead
Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Education transcends geographical and cultural boundaries; it is a universal right of all humanity.
Malala Yousafzai emphasizes that education is not confined to specific cultures or regions, but is a fundamental human right that belongs to everyone. It highlights the importance of promoting education as a shared value that can unite people across different backgrounds for the greater good.
Themes
EducationHumanityUniversalRightsCulture
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a commencement speech to inspire graduates about the importance of education.
More from Malala Yousafzai
All quotes →My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'
Malala YousafzaiRead
We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colors and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, a nose which smells the beauty of fragrance, and two ears to hear the words of love.
Malala YousafzaiRead
I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
Malala YousafzaiRead
I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.
Malala YousafzaiRead
My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
Malala YousafzaiRead
Similar quotes
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
Marian Wright EdelmanRead
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
Abraham VergheseRead
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
John AdamsRead
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinRead
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi AnnanRead
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
Katherine PatersonRead