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We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

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

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

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

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 much 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.

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

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 raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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.

We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colours and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, and two ears to hear the words of love. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one.

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.

I raise up my voice-not so that I can shout, but so those without a voice can be heard.

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

Ich erhebe meine Stimme - nicht um zu schreien, sondern um für die zu sprechen, die keine Stimme haben.

We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.