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Malala Yousafzai Quotes: 18

  • I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

  • 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.

  • Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

  • Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  • I want to make this world perfect.

  • 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.

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

  • When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • 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.

  • Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow."Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons."Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

  • Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

  • I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither eastern or western, it is human

    I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  • As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail 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 Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban