Baleada realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.
Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it? Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. 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. My mother always told me,” hide your face people are looking at you. I am also looking at them. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death.
Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid, you can’t move forward. Life isn’t just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. 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 don’t want to be thought of as the “girl who was shot by the Taliban” but the “girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.
He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking. Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son’s teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. 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. My mother always told me,” hide your face people are looking at you.