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
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.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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.
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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.
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.
Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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.
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
