Quotes by Malala Yousafzai

Malala was devasted and she had began writing an anonymous blog in BBC chronicling the events. In 2012, a Taliban gunman shot a then 15-year-old Malala in the head for talking for girls’ education and rights. Fatally wounded, she survived after she was treated in the UK where she was later granted asylum.

Malala Yousafzai quotes on Gender Equality

One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.

“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.”

quotes by Malala Yousafzai

“In Pakistan when women say they want independence, people think this means we don’t want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make decisions for ourselves. We want to be free to go to school or to go to work. Nowhere is it written in the Quran that a woman should be dependent on a man. The word has not come down from the heavens to tell us that every woman should listen to a man.”

“If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?”

“I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.”

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don’t I take a step and move forward?

I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

Malala Yousafzai Quotes on Feminism

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.

“Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’.”

“I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’

But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’

Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.”

So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism, and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.

Malala Yousafzai quotes thoughts English

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 quotes on Education

If people were silent, nothing would change.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is.

Education is our basic right. Not just in the West; Islam too has given us this right. Islam says every girl and every boy should go to school. In the Quran it is written, God wants us to have knowledge. He wants us to know why the sky is blue and about oceans and stars. I know it’s a big struggle—around the world there are fifty-seven million children who are not in primary school, thirty-two million of them girls.

Though we loved school, we hadn’t realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn’t just a way of passing time, it was our future.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

We want schools and education for every child’s bright future. We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education for everyone.

Malala Yousafzai quotes in Hindi

एक कलम, एक किताब, एक बच्चा, और एक शिक्षक पूरी दुनिया बदल सकते हैं।

आतंकवादियों ने सोचा कि वे मेरा लक्ष्य बदल देंगे और मेरी महत्त्वाकांक्षाओं को दबा देंगे, लेकिन मेरी ज़िन्दगी से डर, कमजोरी और निराशा की मौत हो गयी। शक्ति, साहस और सामर्थ्य का जन्म हो गया।

अगर आप खड़े हो कर बोलेंगे नहीं तो आतंकवाद ख़तम नहीं होंगा बल्कि और फैलेगा।

आप दुसरो से ज़रूर लड़िये लेकिन शांति, बातचीत और शिक्षा के माध्यम से।

में मानती हूँ कि हथियारों में कोई शक्ति नहीं है।

लोगो के रंग, उनकी भाषा या उनके धर्म के आधार पर भेदभाव नही होना चाहिये।

मैं उस लड़की के रूप में याद किया जाना नहीं चाहती जिसे गोली मार दी गयी थी। बल्कि मैं उस साहसी लड़की के रूप में याद किया जाना चाहती हूँ जिसने खड़े हो कर सामना किया।

जब मेरा जन्म हुआ तब मेरे कुछ रिश्तेदार घर आये और मेरी माँ से कहा, ‘चिंता मत कीजिये, अगली बार आपको बेटा होगा।’

जब पूरी दुनिया खामोश हो तब एक आवाज़ भी ताक़तवर बन जाती है।

Quotes of Malala Yousafzai in Malayalam

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.” –From a speech given to the UN Youth Assembly, just nine months after her attempted assassination.

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” –From a speech at Harvard in September 2013.
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” –From a speech at Harvard in September 2013.

“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?” –From an exclusive interview with The Guardian’s Kamila Shamsie. Yousafzai opened up about her thoughts regarding the burqa conversation in the UK.

“If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malala? …If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others…with cruelty…you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through education…then I’ll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well… that’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.”

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