Malala Yousafzai Quotes
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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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.
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I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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I want to serve the people.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.