Quotes from Nadia Murad

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.

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.

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.

Maybe people will remember me for being a stylist, not a survivor.

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.

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.

Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons.

There were 2 million civilians in Mosul and 2,000 kidnapped girls there. There were thousands of families in Mosul that could have helped other girls, but they didn't. Women had to wear veils in Mosul. It would have been easy to smuggle Yazidi women out.

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

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

Whenever Daesh loses territory, of course this brings me happiness.

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.

Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.

I'll see myself as a person of worth on the day when terrorists are brought to justice.

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.

All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews and nieces.

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 think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

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.

Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.

I want to create a family with my fiance and be able to live a simple life and just be safe.

The Yazidi people, they are very - they just want a simple life.