Quotes from Nadia Murad

I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.

Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.

ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.

The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.

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.

I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'

It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live, to be put in refugee camps.

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.

What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.

When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.

I am afraid that Yazidis and Yazidism will vanish and will not be able to resist the extremists.

Justice is the only way to achieve peace and co-existence among the various components of Iraq.

I didn't want people to know me as a victim.

Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.

I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.

I want to learn English.

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.

It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar.