Nadia Murad Quotes

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I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.
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We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen – prioritizing humanity, not war.
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I want to create a family with my fiance and be able to live a simple life and just be safe.
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ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.
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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.
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It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar.
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When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.
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The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.
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I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I didn’t want people to know me as a victim.
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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.
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Justice is the only way to achieve peace and co-existence among the various components of Iraq.
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Every day, I feel like it’s the day I was freed from Daesh. Every time I speak about my story, I feel like it’s the day I was liberated.
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What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?
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I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.
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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.
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Whenever Daesh loses territory, of course this brings me happiness.
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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.
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Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.
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I want to learn English.
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Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.
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The terrorists didn’t think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of what they did to us. We defy them by not letting their crimes go unanswered.
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Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons.
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I’ll see myself as a person of worth on the day when terrorists are brought to justice.
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I think there was a reason God helped me escape… and I don’t take my freedom for granted.
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It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.
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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.
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I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.
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