Malala Yousafzai

"Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan."

"The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives."

"My father says that education is neither Eastern or Western. Education is education: it's the right of everyone."

"Dear friends, on 9 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. And out of that silenc…"

"I don’t know where to begin my speech. I don’t know what people would be expecting me to say, but first of all thank you to God for whom we are equal and thank you to every person who has prayed for m…"

"In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential."

"Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities."

"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."