I Am Malala Quotes

“What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns - as well as her own family.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“Perhaps that's because I do not remember a thing about the shooting. Not a single thing. The doctors and nurses offered complicated explanations for why I didn't recall the attack. They said the brain protects us from memories that are too painful to remember. Or, they said, my brain might have shut down as soon as I was injured. I love science, and I love nothing more than asking question upon question to figure out the way things work. But I don't need science to figure out why I don't remember the attack. I know why: God is kind to me.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“How great God is! He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. But we don’t realize how miraculous our senses are until we lose one.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“One person had tried to silence me. And millions spoke out.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World; Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation

“If you help someone in need you might also receive unexpected aid.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“If you want to resolve a dispute, or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache, and tell the doctor you have a stomach ache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“What have I done wrong that I should be afraid? All I want to do is go to school. And that is not a crime. That is my right.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“I raise up my voice not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“How great God is! He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance and a heart to appreciate it all. But we don't realise how miraculous our senses are until we lose one. A Talib had fired 3 shots at point-blank range at 3 girls in a school bus - and none os us was killed. One person had tried to silence me. And millions spoke out. Those were miracles too.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“I would run to rejoin the children. Especially when it was time for the kite-flying contests- where the boys would skilfully try to cut down their competitors' kite strings. It plunges. It was beautiful, and also a bit melancholy for me to see the pretty kites sputter to the ground.
Maybe it was because I could see a future that would be cut down just like those kites- simply because I was a girl.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“If you hit a Talib with your shoe, there is no difference between him and you. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight them with peace and dialogue.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“So, yes, the Taliban have shot me. But they can only shoot a body. They cannot shoot my dreams, they cannot kill my beliefs and they cannot stop my campaign to see every girl and every boy in school.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World; Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation

“Il était ulcéré par le fait que la plupart des gens ne veuillent pas s'exprimer. Il gardait dans sa poche un poème de Martin Niemöller, qui vivait dans l'Allemagne nazie. Il disait: “Lorsqu'ils sont venus chercher les communistes, je n'ai rien dit, je n'étais pas communiste. Lorsqu'ils ont emprisonné les socialistes, je n'ai rien dit, je n'étais pas socialiste. Lorsqu'ils sont venus chercher les syndicalistes, je n'ai rien dit, je n'étais pas syndicaliste. Lorsqu'ils sont venus chercher les juifs, je n'ai rien dit parce que je n'étais pas juif. Lorsqu'ils sont venus chercher les catholiques, je n'ai rien dit parce que je n'étais pas catholique. Lorsqu'ils sont venus me chercher, il ne restait plus personne pour protester.”
Il avait raison. Si les gens se taisaient, rien ne changerait.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“I had grown up hearing the word terrorism, but I never really understood what it meant. Until now. Terrorism is different from war-where soldiers face one another in battle. Terrorism is fear all around you. It is going to sleep at night and not knowing what horrors the next day will bring.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. 'Are you all right, jani?' he said. 'Aba,' I said, trying to reassure him. 'Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“When you are caught between military and militants, there is no good”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“serious.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“We must never forget to share what we have." - Malala's Mother (Page 27)”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“A child is a child, even when he is a prophet.” - Malala’s father (Chapter 1)”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“To someone else, they might seem like mere trinkets made of plastic. To someone else, they may simply look like prizes for good grades. But to me, they are reminders of the life I lived and the girl I was..." (Page 2, Prologue)”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“It is my belief God sends the solution first and the problem later,”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“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. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that 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.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“La gente solía hablar mal del carácter de Shabana, pero nuestros hombres deseaban verla bailar, al tiempo que la despreciaban por ser bailarina. (…) Así que a la gente le gustaba ver a Shabana bailar, pero no la respetaban y cuando la asesinaron nadie dijo nada.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“Me, who had spent hours fussing with my hair and fretting about my height! When you see death, I wanted to say, things change.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“That summer I turned fifteen. Many girls are married off by that age. And many boys have already left school to support their families. I was lucky. I would get to stay in school as long as I wanted.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“alley”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“And I had found a great new teacher in our upper-school headmistress Madam Maryam. She was bright and independent—everything I wanted to be.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“Two million people were fleeing their homes. It was the biggest exodus in Pashtun history.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World