Best Malala Yousafzai Quotes

Malala Yousafzai Quotes About Education, Life, Feminism, Leadership, Peace, Terrorism & Bravery! International activist Malala Yousafzai fights for the rights of girls and women while also promoting the transformational potential of education, debate, and peace. Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley as a member of the Pashtun community.

She attended the school her father, Ziauddin, founded and quickly rose through the ranks, demonstrating a strong desire to study. However, since the country was engulfed in a continuous struggle and a lengthy battle, the Taliban’s violent extremist organization had prohibited females from attending school in the area. On a school bus trip home in October 2012, a Taliban gunman among a group of assailants shot Yousafzai and two other girls.

Days later, she went to England, where she underwent months of rehabilitation at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital after suffering severe brain damage. As soon as she was released in February 2013, she continued her studies at Birmingham City University and delivered an impassioned speech at the United Nations in June of that year. The Malala Fund is a worldwide investment fund for girls’ education.

To honor their fight “against the oppression of children and young people, as well as the right of all children to education,” the Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Yousafzai in October 2014 together with fellow activists Kailash Satyarthi. Consequently, Yousafzai is now the youngest person to get the respect and recognition that many of the other honors she has continued to earn. I am Malala, a collaboration with Christina Lamb was published in 2013. Presently she is a student at Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, UK, pursuing her studies.

Best Malala Yousafzai Quotes

1. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

2. “The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.” – Malala Yousafzai

3. “All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.” – Malala Yousafzai

4. “Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.” – Malala Yousafzai

5. “I will get my education – if it is in home, school, or anyplace.” – Malala Yousafzai

6. “I say I am stronger than fear.” – Malala Yousafzai

7. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai

8. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” – Malala Yousafzai

9. “It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.” – Malala Yousafzai

10. “We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.” – Malala Yousafzai

11. “For my brothers, it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.” – Malala Yousafzai

12. “In countries other than Pakistan – I won’t necessarily call them ‘Western’ – people support me. This is because people they respect others. They don’t do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one’s words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.” – Malala Yousafzai

13. “I don’t know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it’s the right of every human being.” – Malala Yousafzai

14. “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.” – Malala Yousafzai

15. “Think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don’t go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move… We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?” – Malala Yousafzai

16. “Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That’s why they are so powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai

17. “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.” – Malala Yousafzai

18. “Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.” – Malala Yousafzai

19. “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 Yousafzai

20. “There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.” – Malala Yousafzai

21. “Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.” – Malala Yousafzai

22. “What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media… So we must try to use social media in a good way.” – Malala Yousafzai

23. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai

24. “I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.” – Malala Yousafzai

25. “In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.” – Malala Yousafzai

26. “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.” – Malala Yousafzai

27. “There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it’s just one, and it’s education.” – Malala Yousafzai

28. “If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.” – Malala Yousafzai

29. “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” – Malala Yousafzai

30. “The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.” – Malala Yousafzai