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We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
Malala Yousafzai
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Malala Yousafzai
Age: 27
Born: 1997
Born: July 12
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You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?
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As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.
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Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
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I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
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She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.
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We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced
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Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential
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If people were silent, nothing would change.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.
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Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.
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I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
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If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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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.
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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.
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I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
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I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.
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