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

by Malala Yousafzai

“Without honor, the world counts for nothing.”

Benazir was our first female prime minister and the first in the Islamic world. Suddenly there was a lot of optimism about the future.

Gandhi said, “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

Holy Quran clearly says it is wrong to kill.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

“A diamond must be cut many times before it yields even a tiny jewel,”

everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn’t matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.