Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

Girls should never be afraid to be smart

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

It's time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don't be scared. They are strong because we are weak - lets change that.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

Young women now, this generation - girls my age too, but even younger than I am - they're the ones that are going to change the world. They've grown up in such a new way of thinking about women and female empowerment. I grew up with a little bit of that, but teenagers now, those are the girls that are going to make the world a different place for everyone else.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.