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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.
Malala Yousafzai
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
Malala Yousafzai -
I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
Malala Yousafzai -
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
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The thing is that the people of Pakistan have supported me. They don't think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani.
Malala Yousafzai
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There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
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Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.
Malala Yousafzai -
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
Malala Yousafzai -
On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you.' I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
Malala Yousafzai -
It is my dream that one day, great buildings like this one will exist in every corner of the world so every child can grow up with the opportunity to succeed.
Malala Yousafzai -
When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
Malala Yousafzai
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First of all, my father inspired me...he is a great social activist and women's rights activist...he spoke out. And he spoke for women's rights...that hard situation, he inspired me, because he spoke. And that's what I learned from him.
Malala Yousafzai -
Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai -
In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential.
Malala Yousafzai