Malala Yousafzai Quotes

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

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There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.

Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

You can't love nature with a gun

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.

I believe we can have common sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment, and, in fact, what I have proposed is supported by 90 percent of the American people and more than 75 percent of responsible gun owners.

This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller.