Words matter. These are the best Nadia Murad Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.
What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.
Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.
Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons.
I am afraid that Yazidis and Yazidism will vanish and will not be able to resist the extremists.
I was the youngest girl among my siblings, a simple village girl, who perhaps was luckier than other siblings as I have the chance to go to school.
Justice is the only way to achieve peace and co-existence among the various components of Iraq.
I’ll see myself as a person of worth on the day when terrorists are brought to justice.
The hope of ISIS was to break the Yazidi community. But for survivors especially, going back to their lives and getting married and making a life and working, it’s basically making sure ISIS did not succeed.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.
Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.
It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar.
ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.
There should be no place for terrorism and extremist ideas in post-ISIS Iraq. We must join forces in building our country; we must contribute together to achieve security, stability, and prosperity for the benefit of all Iraqis.
My survival case comes with a purpose and obligation, which is why I have launched Nadia’s Initiative, an organisation dedicated to helping women and children who have been victimised… My initiative is trying to get support needed to get Sinjar rebuilt.
I want to learn English.
We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.
Whenever I get a call from the camps in Iraq that someone has been liberated, that so-and-so’s daughter was liberated, I feel overwhelming joy again.
Maybe people will remember me for being a stylist, not a survivor.
I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.
What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?
I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.
Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.
World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.
