Malala Yousafzai citations

Malala Yousafzai ou Malala Yousufzai est une militante pakistanaise des droits des femmes, née le 12 juillet 1997 à Mingora, dans la province de Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, où elle s'est opposée aux talibans qui tentaient d'interdire la scolarisation des filles.

Elle a vécu à Mingora, principale ville du district de Swat, dans le Nord-Ouest du Pakistan, une zone proche de l'influence des talibans. Symbole de la lutte pour l'éducation des filles et contre les talibans, elle a reçu plusieurs distinctions pakistanaises et internationales à la suite de ses prises de position alors que sa région était l'objet d'une lutte entre les talibans pakistanais et l'armée. Durant son enfance, Malala a écrit un blog pour la BBC, racontant son point de vue sur l’éducation et sa vie sous la domination talibane.

Le 9 octobre 2012, elle est victime d'une tentative d'assassinat où elle est grièvement blessée, un attentat condamné par toute la classe politique du pays. Elle est transférée vers l'hôpital de Birmingham au Royaume-Uni le 15 octobre pour suivre un traitement plus poussé. Cette attaque conduit à une médiatisation internationale de Malala Yousafzai.

En 2014, âgée de 17 ans, elle obtient le prix Nobel de la paix avec l'Indien Kailash Satyarthi, ce qui fait d'elle la plus jeune lauréate de l'histoire de ce prix. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. juillet 1997
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Malala Yousafzai: Citations en anglais

“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”

UN speech, June 2013
Contexte: So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.

“This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.”

UN speech, June 2013
Contexte: Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

“We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it.”

Quoted on the website of the IMT http://www.marxist.com/historic-32nd-congress-of-pakistani-imt-1.htm: Statement to the 32nd congress of Pakistani Marxists
Statement to 32nd Congress of Pakistani Marxists, March 2013
Contexte: First of all I’d like to thank The Struggle and the IMT for giving me a chance to speak last year at their Summer Marxist School in Swat and also for introducing me to Marxism and Socialism. I just want to say that in terms of education, as well as other problems in Pakistan, it is high time that we did something to tackle them ourselves. It’s important to take the initiative. We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it. Why are we waiting for someone else to come and fix things? Why aren’t we doing it ourselves? I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to the congress. I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

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

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)

“I am convinced Socialism is the only answer”

Quoted on the website of the IMT http://www.marxist.com/historic-32nd-congress-of-pakistani-imt-1.htm: Statement to the 32nd congress of Pakistani Marxists
Statement to 32nd Congress of Pakistani Marxists, March 2013
Contexte: First of all I’d like to thank The Struggle and the IMT for giving me a chance to speak last year at their Summer Marxist School in Swat and also for introducing me to Marxism and Socialism. I just want to say that in terms of education, as well as other problems in Pakistan, it is high time that we did something to tackle them ourselves. It’s important to take the initiative. We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it. Why are we waiting for someone else to come and fix things? Why aren’t we doing it ourselves? I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to the congress. I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

“I think that it's really an early age… I would feel proud, when I would work for education, when I would have done something, when I would be feeling confident to tell people, 'Yes! I have built that school; I have done that teachers' training, I have sent that (many) children to school'… Then if I get the Nobel Peace Prize, I will be saying, Yeah, I deserve it, somehow… I want to become a Prime Minister of Pakistan, and I think it's really good. Because through politics I can serve my whole county. I can be the doctor of the whole country… I can spend much of the money from the budget on education," she told It appears that becoming prime minister is a means to the end she has dedicated her life to… [in recalling when she got shot] He asked, 'Who is Malala?' He did not give me time to answer his question… He fired three bullets… One bullet hit me in the left side of my forehead, just above here, and it went down through my neck and into my shoulder… But still if I look at (it), it's a miracle… A Nobel Peace Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girls' education… But the real call, the most precious call, that I want to get and for which I'm thirsting and for which I want to struggle hard, that is the award to see every child to go to school, that is the award of peace and education for every child. And for that, I will struggle and I will work hard.”

Interview on CNN with Christiane Amanpour (October 11, 2013)

“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.”

Malala in Interview with a Pakistani Television network, 2011-12; Cited in: The girl who wanted to go to school http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/10/the-girl-who-wanted-to-go-to-school.html." The New Yorker by Basharat Peer, posted October 10, 2012
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“On my way from school to home I heard a man saying “I will kill you.” I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.”

Malala. "I am afraid", Saturday 3 January 2009; Cited in: Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834402.stm at news.bbc.co.uk. 19 January 2009
Malala's diary, 2009

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