“I called on the world’s leaders to provide free education to every child in the world. “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
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“Some of our religious people saw Osama bin Laden as a hero. In the bazaar you could buy posters of him on a white horse and boxes of sweets with his picture on them. These clerics said 9/11 was revenge on the Americans for what they had been doing to other people around the world, but they ignored the fact that the people in the World Trade Center were innocent and had nothing to do with American policy and that the Holy Quran clearly says it is wrong to kill.”
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“My father wrote my speech. In it he argued that if you want to do good, but do it in a bad way, that’s still bad. In the same way, if you choose a good method to do something bad it’s still bad. He ended it with Lincoln’s words: “It is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.”
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“In Pakistan we have something called the Blasphemy Law, which protects the Holy Quran from desecration.”
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“People had lived by the river in Swat for 3,000 years and always seen it as our lifeline, not a threat, and our valley as a haven from the outside world. Now we had become “the valley of sorrows,” said my cousin Sultan Rome. First the earthquake, then the Taliban, then the military operation, and now, just as we were starting to rebuild, devastating floods arrived to wash all our work away.”
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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