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Malala Yousafzai

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  1. “Love is the greatest thing on earth. It's what can be more beautiful than love and the love of your parents, the love of your brothers. And after that echo what I received was the love of people. And that really strengthened me. I might not have been able to go forward.”

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  2. “I believe and I know for sure that if you have strong commitment within your heart, if you have love in your heart that you want to do something better, The whole world in the whole universe supports you in your cause. And I had this simple one word or one sentence dream that was to see every child going to school. And I spoke out for it in my father spoke out for it. In this small valley in Pakistan, Swat Valley, and that journey started and now it's going on and getting better and developing each and every day.”

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  3. “Me, God really is another name for love, for kindness. Heart, all these feelings. And I think God isn't that tiny, that conservative being who wants us to live a very strict life, like all the religious scholars used to say in Swat like the Taliban, that you should dress in a specific way, you should talk in a specific way. And I used to wonder, is God just sitting there and looking at my shoes and looking at my dress? Thinking okay, so I have put on, like, my dress is too small, and now he's going to send me to hell. And this is like how you think of God. For me, God is the name of love. It's the name of kindness.”

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  4. “About my father, I can say that he led me to be who I wanted. He did not stop me. And if he would have become the typical father who stopped their daughters not to go to school, not to be independent, not to have a say, not to have the right to speak, I wouldn't have become who I am today. My father never, ever, ever stopped me from having a say in saying that I too have an opinion, even though if I'm eight, nine, ten, eleven, he said, yes, your view matters and you should give your ideas. And he would appreciate it. He would say, oh, well done, amazing.”

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  5. “Yes, definitely. Before that take, I used to think that how would it feel if you are a tech? And I had these thoughts coming again and again. And I sometimes used to think that I would be attacked, but not really expecting, but these thoughts were coming to my mind, but after I was a tech, as I said in my UN speech, that they changed nothing in my life except that weakness, fear, and hopelessness died and strength, power, and courage was born. I feel stronger than before.”

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  6. “No, no, why should I? When you go through the situation that you are attacked and you are nearly killed and after that you survive and you are alive and you are still speaking out then there's nothing else you should be afraid of. Like what else can they do? They can only kill me and it didn't work. So it means nothing else can work. In this moment is still alive. This moment that girls deserve education, this campaign, this voice is still alive. And even if they do.”

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  7. “And when I was attacked, so my mother was worried about me, but she also thought about the mother of the person who shot me because she thought that how would that mother feel whose son just shot three girls in a school van? To be the mother of those people who shoot others.”

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  8. “As far as I know, Islam, the word Islam means peace, and it's a religion of brotherhood, humanity, and kindness and generosity. And what I have learned is that you have to be kind to each other, you have to respect each other's religious beliefs and cultural beliefs. I don't understand the Islam that the terrorists are showing that is killing people.”

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  9. “For me, being Muslim means to be peaceful, to be kind, to always think about others, and to always think that how the one action you take can affect other people's life.”

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  10. “Well, so there's this fight between courage and fear. And sometimes we choose fear because we want to protect ourselves, but we don't realize that by choosing fear, we put ourselves in a situation that has really bad impact on us. So if I would have kept silent in Swat Valley and my father would have kept silent, and all of us would have kept silent, then there would not have been that moment when change would have come in our valley. So it's better to speak out, to have that moment when you say, I'm going to do something from my side. And that needs a bit of courage. So our courage was stronger than our fear. And that what really changed our lives, there was fear. It wasn't that we just totally were fine with what was going on in our society. We were afraid. And that was the fear that to live in that situation, the fear that I would be away from.”

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  11. “I do have lots of friends now, and we go for shopping and go to restaurants, enjoy time. And I also like playing cricket and badminton, also fighting with brothers.”

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  12. “So I went to Laban in Jordan and we opened a school. And that was like the wonderful and the great thing you can ever do. And you see girls in their school uniform sitting there with books, sitting in the classrooms. And you can see that what else can you do better than this? You change the girl's life you give your school.”

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  13. “No, because I believe that whatever happened, bad or good, it's really important to focus on future and learn from your past, but in order to go forward, you have to focus on your future. And if every day for the last three years, if I would have cried that white was me, why it was me, nothing would have been done. But instead of saying that, I said, okay, even though I was short, but I'm not just the only girl who becomes victim of discrimination in society or being attacked in terrorism or getting deprived of education, there are millions of girls. And the best way to fight against terrorism is to educate girls, is to empower them, is to raise their voices. And in those last three years, I made trip to Jordan to speak out for Syrian refugees and to mention Lebanon and Nigeria. And this is the best revenge you can ever take.”

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  14. “Well, I think that in order to go forward, it's important that you. And I want to have love in my heart. I don't want to have any hate, any bad feelings in my heart. And that's what makes me more happy.”

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  15. “One reason for this is that I don't remember the incident. So it does not make me feel like I was the girl who was shot. She was just Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban. She has got this definition. She's now someone else for me. For me, I am this person with a heart which strongly believes that doing something for your people is important and you should do as much as you can.”

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  16. “Yes, I strongly believe that. I believe that this life is purely for a purpose and that is helping people, that is doing something for the world and doing something for the betterment of the society and for girls. And this is a second life, this is a new life.”

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  17. “Well, I haven't done that much yet, and it's my dream to be like them in the chain they have brought in society that I can do the same. And it's like the beginning of the journey. But it's really to believe that they're just like you and it begins from a small step. And when you, it's helping the community if you have truly that ambition. Once you started, then if you have strong commitment, then you can do it.”

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  18. “Yes, but who really inspired me was my father and my mother, of course. And when I would listen to my father speaking out for education and speaking out for women's rights, it just really inspired me. But then sometimes we just think that the person who would bring the change would be very special and he would be like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. And there are very special people. They can't be among us. And we don't realize that they are just normal people like us.”

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  19. “People think I did a brave thing that I spoke out for education. And then even after I was attacked, I spoke out again. So it's defined as bravery. For me, bravery is when you speak up and speak out for what is right. And it's our responsibility. It's not that we do something, give something extra, and do a favor to our community. I think it's our duty and we should do it and we must do it. And however you define it, it's our duty to speak out for what is right.”

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  20. “I think there was nothing greater than the love and the prayer of people. And it's so special that you can't buy it. You can't buy it. No. It's a gift. It's a gift of God”

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  21. “So, when I was in the hospital, I had no idea that people outside had so much support for me and they were praying for me and the cars and the letters that I had received, I had no idea. But as the doctors and the hospital staff, they would bring cards to the hospital, to my room every day. It just totally surprised me. Before I believed in prayers, but then it strengthened my belief in prayers that the prayers of people are so powerful that it can give you life and that God listens to them and he just listens to their voices.”

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  22. “Yes, because I thought he got attacked and I was very worried about him. And I first thanked God that I was alive and I was surviving. It's very difficult moment when you want to wake up and when you want to prove that you are surviving, you are not dead. And once I woke up, I said, yes, I am alive and I'm existing and I haven't gone from this world yet. And then I asked, where is my father? And it was a very difficult time because I could not speak because there was tube in my neck and I really wanted to ask many, many questions and I would try to write them, to ask the doctors. But then 10 days later when I saw my family, that was the first time that I cried. It was a very emotional moment to see my family again.”

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  23. “I do not remember, but my friend says, my best friend Muniba, she says that when the person came and he said who is Malala, some of the girls looked at you because they had no idea what was going to happen next. And I asked her, like, what did I do? How did I react? Was I scared? And she said, you said nothing, but you're holding my hand so tightly that I could feel pain on my hand. And then she said as he fought bullets, you fell down into my lap and you started bleeding. And then they fired two, three more bullets, and then my other two friends were hit as well.”

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  24. “I remember just that last moment when I was talking to my friend and thinking about the next day we had exams at that time and my exam went very well on that. And then suddenly waking up in Birmingham in a hospital seeing doctors and nurses and had no idea what had happened in between.”

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  25. “Yes, you are right, and they like people call him the most brutal people, terrorists, and they have done things which shock people, but then no one could imagine targeting children. They have destroyed school, but they never killed a child, a targeted a child who spoke out. So it was very unusual, very unusual. And I always used to think about my father because we both used to speak together about this campaign of education and I would speak on behalf of Gullis and he would speak for schools, for women's rights, for peace and for girls' rights. So I was really worried about my father that he might be targeted and used to think, what should I do if someone comes to our house and my mother had put a letter at the back of the house? So if someone comes, we tell our father just to go away quickly at the back. And remember they even decided to put a knife under her pillow. But then she said, it's too violent.”

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  26. “Well, there was a very difficult time. More than 400 schools were destroyed and women were not allowed to go to markets and girls' education was banned completely. And at that situation, for me, I was not really afraid of speaking out, but I was afraid to live in that situation. And I did not want to live in a situation where I had no freedom, where I did not have the right to be who I wanted. I'm stopped from going to school. And the next thought that would come to my mind was, am I going to be just like the other women in my community getting married at a very early age, 13, 14, and then having children and then grandchildren and that's it. That would be my life. I wouldn't be myself.”

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  27. “But then, so I really wanted this speech to be the voice of girls, to be the voice of children. And it was wonderful because we invited five girls from Nigeria, Syria, and three girls from Pakistan, including the two girls who were attacked. And all these girls, yes, they had a story and representing girls within Nigeria who were abducted by Boko Haram or girls in Pakistan who suffer from sexual violence or Syrian girls who are now refugees. So they had a story and that made my day very special to feel that I was not just one girl, but I was many. I was speaking on behalf of those millions of girls who are deprived of education. And that really made the award more precious to me. And it felt like it was, I was receiving it for the children.”

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  28. “Well, just like a week or two before the speech, I had my exams. So I was totally focused on exams. I couldn't give five minutes to the speech. And I said, I need to do well in my exam. So I was just totally focused on high school.”

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  29. “I think unfortunate or fortunate, I don't know how to explain it, but I have gone through these experiences of being deprived of education and seeing terrorism, seeing schools being blown up. So when you see that situation, it helps you to know about other people and how other people feel when they go through the same circumstances in their life, when they suffer through the same difficulties in their life. So now seeing around the world that children cannot get education and girls are facing so many difficulties in their life and they're deprived of independence and being themselves. It just reminds me of my past and then I think that what I have went through in my past, I should help people not to go through the same situation of terrorism.”

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