Malala Yousafzai Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Learning, School, Goal

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". The speech to the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

• We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, School, Hands

• I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Women, School, Mind

• I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, School, Pakistan

  "Interview: Even If Its People Hate Me, I Will Still Love Pakistan, Says Malala". Interview with Abdul Hai Kakar, www.rferl.org. October 8, 2013.

• They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place

  Malala Yousafzai

  Home, School, Ifs

• 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

  School, World, Normal

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Death Did Not Want to Kill Me'". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. October 06, 2013.

• In In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, Independent, Feminist

  "Malala Yousafzai Is the Youngest-Ever Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize". www.vogue.com. October 10, 2014.

• 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.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, War, Tired

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

• Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Dream, Country

• The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Teacher, Book, School

  Malala Fund @MalalaFund, twitter.com. October 11, 2013.

• I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, 'OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.'

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, School

• My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Teacher, Children, Powerful

• We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Believe

• It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, School, Leader

  Malala Yousafzai's acceptance speech for Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.ndtv.com. December 10, 2014.

• I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Mother, Dream

  "Malala's diary / "I am afraid"". Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger, 10 October 2012, www.bbc.com. January 3, 2009.

• If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, Years, Rivers

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.115, Hachette UK

• I want to just stay focused on my mission. That is to see every girl get the right to education. And I think this is such an important thing that girls get their right to go to school, and we are losing the potential that these young girls have in this region, like Iraq.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, School, Thinking

  "Malala Yousafzai Turns 20, Travels To Iraq". Interview with Jane Arraf, kccu.org. July 15, 2017.

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