Malala Yousafzai Quotes

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim. An' don't let anny wan give thim to ye. A right that is handed to ye fer nawthin has somethin the matter with it.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Create power for the powerless.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

We must create our own world.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

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The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.