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MALALA YOUSAFZI- Pakistani education & human rights activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE<\/div>\n


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\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>, Pakistani education activist,<\/p>\n

Speech before United Nations members and Youth Delegates (12 July 2013) \u201cYouth Takeover of the UN\u201d event, New York, NY; video & transcript via \u201cMalala\u2019s speech to the UN Youth Takeover,\u201d Theirworld<\/em>, www.theirworld.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Speech during the first \u201cYouth Takeover of the UN\u201d event. Yousafzai delivered the speech on her 16th birthday, not long after her recovery from an assassination attempt by a terrorist group opposed to education and rights for girls and women.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are hundreds of human rights activists and social workers who are not only speaking for human rights, but who are struggling to achive their goals of education, peace and equality. Thousands of people have been killed by the terrorists and millions have been injured. I am just one of them.<\/p>\n

So here I stand…one girl among many.<\/p>\n

I speak \u2013 not for myself, but for all girls and boys.<\/p>\n

I raise up my voice \u2013 not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cMalala\u2019s speech to the UN Youth Takeover\u201d (12 July 2013) online via Theirworld: https:\/\/theirworld.org\/explainers\/malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-youth-takeover-of-the-united-nations<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>, Pakistani education activist,<\/p>\n

\u201cMalala Yousafzai to Open Birmingham Library\u201d (1 September 2013) Press Association article, The Guardian<\/em>; online via The Guardian US, New York, NY: The Guardian, www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Remarks made in advance of her appearance at the formal unveiling of a large new public library in Birmingham, England]:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honoured to be part of the opening,\u201d she said. \u201cThe content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.<\/span> There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: \u201cMalala Yousafzai to Open Birmingham Library\u201d (1 September 2013) online via The Guardian: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/02\/malala-yousafzai-birmingham-library<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThey thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. An then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices….nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>, Pakistani education activist,<\/p>\n

Speech before United Nations members and Youth Delegates (12 July 2013) \u201cYouth Takeover of the UN\u201d event, New York, NY; video & transcript via \u201cMalala\u2019s speech to the UN Youth Takeover,\u201d Theirworld, www.theirworld.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Speech during the first \u201cYouth Takeover of the UN\u201d event. Yousafzai, known widely simply as \u201cMalala,\u201d delivered the speech on her 16th birthday, not long after her recovery from an assassination attempt by a terrorist group opposed to education and rights for girls and women.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. An then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices.<\/span> The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cMalala\u2019s speech to the UN Youth Takeover\u201d (12 July 2013) online via Theirworld: https:\/\/theirworld.org\/explainers\/malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-youth-takeover-of-the-united-nations<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhy is it that countries which we call \u201cstrong\u201d are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>, Pakistani human rights activist<\/p>\n

Nobel lecture (10 December 2014) City Hall, Oslo, Norway, Norway: Nobel Media AB; transcript & video online via NobelPrize.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Nobel Lecture. Yousafzai, known widely simply as \u201cMalala,\u201d received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize along with Kailash Satyarthi \u201cfor their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cDear sisters and brothers, the so-called world of adults may understand it, but we children don\u2019t. Why is it that countries which we call \u201cstrong\u201d are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?<\/span> Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Malal Yousafzai was just 18 years old when she delivered her Nobel lecture. She remains the youngest recipient to ever receive a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cMalala Yousafzai \u2013 Nobel Lecture\u201d (10 December 2014) online via Nobel Media AB, Nobelprize.org: https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/2014\/yousafzai\/26074-malala-yousafzai-nobel-lecture-2014\/<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhen future generations read about us…I don\u2019t want them to be shocked that 130 million girls could not go to school and we did nothing. I don\u2019t want them to be shocked we did not stand up for child refugees, as millions of families fled their homes. I don\u2019t want us to be know for failing them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>, Pakistani human rights activist<\/p>\n

Address before a joint session of the Canadian Parliament (12 April 2017) Ottawa, Ontario; transcript via \u201cFor the record: Malala Yousafzai\u2019s speech to Parliament,\u201d 12 April 2017, The Canadian Press, Macleans, www.macleans.ca<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Address to MPs, senators and dignitaries during a joint session of Parliament.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen future generations read about us<\/span> in their books or on their iPads or whatever the next innovation will be, I don\u2019t want them to be shocked that 130 million girls could not go to school and we did nothing. I don\u2019t want them to be shocked we did not stand up for child refugees, as millions of families fled their homes. I don\u2019t want us to be know for failing them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let future generations say we were the ones who stood up. Let them say we were the first to live in a world where all girls can learn and lead without fear.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0\u201cFor the record: Malala Yousafzai\u2019s speech to Parliament,\u201d 12 April 2017 online via Macleans: https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/news\/malala-yousafzai-speech-parliament\/<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhen God created man and woman, he was thinking, \u201cWho shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?\u201d And God chose woman.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>, Pakistani human rights activist<\/p>\n

From a Skype [video-messaging] conversation with reporter Cindi Leive (no date provided, c. 2013) cited by Leive in \u201cMalala Yousafzai: The Girls\u2019 Hero,\u201d Glamour, 30 October 2013; online via Glamour, www.glamour.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [In Skype conversation with reporter Cindi Leive]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time I spoke to Malala (by Skype, with her family milling about behind her), I asked her what she wanted Glamour\u2019s 12 million readers to know. \u201cYou can tell them a story from my imagination!\u201d she said cheerfully. \u201cWhen God created man and woman, he was thinking, \u201cWho shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?\u201d And God chose woman.<\/span> And this<\/em> is the big evidence that women are powerful. Women are strong. Women can do anything. Come out and struggle for your rights; nothing can happen without your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not wait for me<\/em> to do something for your rights. It\u2019s your world, and you can change it.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cMalala Yousafzai: The Girls\u2019 Hero\u201d (30 October 2013) Glamour magazine story and interview by Cindi Leive; online via Glamour: https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/malala-yousafzai<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattributed to Malala Yousafzai –\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe shocking truth is that world leaders have the money to fully fund primary AND secondary education around the world – but they are choosing to spend it on other things, like their military budgets. In fact, if the whole world stopped spending money on the military for just 8 days, we could have the $39 billion still needed to provide 12 years of free, quality education to every child on the planet.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Felicity Amos<\/strong><\/span>, Nonprofit campaign content author<\/p>\n

\u201cBooks not Bullets\u201d A Birthday Request from Malala\u201d (6 July 2015) Campaign message from nonprofit group ONE; online via ONE, www.one.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1453315828190-b4d7b461-d58d5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution note<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

The campaign message written by Felicity Amos for the ONE and Malala Fund has been incorrectly attributed to Malala Yousafzai<\/strong><\/span>. It’s easy to see how this may have happened – Yousafzai’s image appeared just below the Amos message on the ONE website, and it was followed by commentary from Malala herself.<\/p>\n

While Malala likely agreed with the sentiment, however, the quote was not hers \u2013 and Amos should receive credit as the author.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Nonprofit appeal, featuring Pakistani education advocate Malala Yousafzai. While Malala did contribute writing for the appeal, the quote above was from the ONE preface to her image and commentary. Bold text as it appears in cited source.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cMalala Day (Malala\u2019s birthday) is this Sunday, July 12th<\/strong>. She is turing 18 and she is done with wishes<\/strong>. Instead of the birthday greetings, cake, balloons, gifts, parties, new clothes, special songs or any other celebratory birthday rituals practiced around the world,\u00a0Malala wants action<\/strong>. Specifically, Malala wants you to\u00a0support the cause she almost died fighting for: access to education for everyone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The shocking truth is that world leaders have the money to fully fund primary AND secondary education around the world<\/strong> – but they are choosing to spend it on other things, like their military budgets. In fact, if the whole world stopped spending money on the military for just 8 days, we could have the $39 billion still needed to provide 12 years of free, quality education to every child on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is Malala, a few days before her birthday kicking off the #booksnotbullets action:\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cBooks not Bullets\u201d A Birthday Request from Malala\u201d (6 July 2015) online via ONE: https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/2015\/07\/06\/books-not-bullets-a-birthday-request-from-malala\/<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattributed to Malala Yousafzai –\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets. It\u2019s a girl with a book.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Pat Bagley<\/strong><\/span>, American editorial cartoonist<\/p>\n

Text accompanying his drawing of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai holding a book titled \u2018Knowledge<\/em>,\u2019 (15 October 2012) Published by Bagley shortly after Taliban militia shot Malala in her head while she was on the way home from school; image via \u201cDouble Take \u2018Toons: Malala Recovering,\u201d NPR Commentary, Washington, D.C.: NPR, www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531592148-05fdd3db-5676094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution note<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Bagley\u2019s powerful cartoon was published in a number of different media sources. Today, many online resources attributed his words from the cartoon to Malala Yousafzai <\/strong><\/span>herself. Malala, however, is not the original source of the quote.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None \u2013 cited quote is the only text in Bagley\u2019s editorial cartoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets. It\u2019s a girl with a book.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cDouble Take \u2018Toons: Malala Recovering\u201d (15 October 2012) NPR: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/10\/17\/163022615\/double-take-toons-malala-recovering<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Malala Yousafzai\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n