Nadia Murad Quotes

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

'Option B' draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

A city cannot survive if it does not educate its young.

It takes 4 generations to heal one act of violence

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all - specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community - great schools, public safety, etc.

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

Kids in Flint don't even know that you can write to express your feelings and go to the gym and work out, you can run, you can do whatever you love to help relieve stress.

Communities do need police, but law enforcement needs to be much more transparent and held accountable for their actions. We also need increased resources for mental health services, affordable housing, education, jobs training, and much more to truly address social and economic issues in our communities.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

Children certainly can't learn if they're dealing with trauma or mental illness.

I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen.

I think anyone that's running for office really should focus on the education for our youth, creating more jobs and employment, and really focusing on our next generation.

Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.