Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Malala Yousafzai - We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

Malala Yousafzai - We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." - Malala Yousafzai.

"์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žƒ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋Š”๋‹ค." - ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ”„์ž์ด.


Malala Yousafzai: The Power of Voice and Freedom


Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997 in Pakistan's Swat Valley, is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate and a global advocate for girls' education. At age 11, she began writing a blog for the BBC about life under Taliban rule, documenting the ban on girls attending school. In 2012, at age 15, she survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban while riding a school bus. After recovering, Malala transformed her personal tragedy into a global movement, co-founding the Malala Fund to champion education rights worldwide. Her courage and advocacy have made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance and the fight for education.

๋ง๋ž„๋ผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ”„์ž์ด๋Š” 1997๋…„ ํŒŒํ‚ค์Šคํƒ„ ์Šค์™€ํŠธ ๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ์—ฐ์†Œ ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์ƒ ์ˆ˜์ƒ์ž์ด์ž ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๊ต์œก์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์˜นํ˜ธ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 11์„ธ์— ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํƒˆ๋ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ํ†ต์น˜ ํ•˜์˜ ์‚ถ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด BBC ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ํ•™๊ต ์ถœ์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2012๋…„ 15์„ธ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด์— ํ•™๊ต ๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋˜ ์ค‘ ํƒˆ๋ ˆ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์•”์‚ด ์‹œ๋„์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ๋ณต ํ›„, ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ๋น„๊ทน์„ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์šด๋™์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ต์œก ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ ํŽ€๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์™€ ์˜นํ˜ธ ํ™œ๋™์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ํ‰ํ™”์  ์ €ํ•ญ๊ณผ ๊ต์œก์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์˜ ๊ตญ์ œ์  ์ƒ์ง•์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Malala Yousafzai


The Profound Truth in Malala's Words


"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." This powerful statement from Malala Yousafzai captures a fundamental truth about human rights and freedom. The quote reflects her personal experience of having her educational rights stripped away by the Taliban, but its wisdom extends far beyond her individual story. It speaks to the universal tendency to take fundamental freedoms for granted until they are threatened or removed. Malala's words remind us that the ability to speak, learn, and express ourselves freely is not just a privilege but a precious right that requires active protection and appreciation.

"์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์นจ๋ฌต๋‹นํ•  ๋•Œ๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ”„์ž์ด์˜ ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ์ž์œ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ง„์‹ค์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ํƒˆ๋ ˆ๋ฐ˜์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ต์œก ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ•ํƒˆ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋„˜์–ด์„ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ œ๊ฑฐ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ์˜ ๋ง์€ ๋งํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ , ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํŠน๊ถŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์™€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์ž„์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

From Silence to Global Voice


Malala's journey from being silenced to becoming one of the world's most influential voices exemplifies her quote's message. When the Taliban banned girls from attending school in her region, she refused to be silenced, instead using a pseudonym to blog about her experiences. Even after the attack that nearly killed her, Malala emerged with an even stronger voice, addressing the United Nations on her 16th birthday and continuing to advocate for the 130 million girls worldwide who are denied education. Her transformation shows how attempts to silence can paradoxically amplify the very voices they seek to suppress.

์นจ๋ฌต๋‹นํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์ด ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒˆ๋ ˆ๋ฐ˜์ด ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์—ฌํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ํ•™๊ต ์ถœ์„์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์นจ๋ฌตํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€์‹  ๊ฐ€๋ช…์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ฃฝ์ผ ๋ป”ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์ดํ›„์—๋„, ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜ 16๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ƒ์ผ์— ์œ ์—”์—์„œ ์—ฐ์„คํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ต์œก์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•œ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ 1์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์†Œ๋…€๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ์˜นํ˜ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์นจ๋ฌต์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„๊ฐ€ ์—ญ์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์–ต์••ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฆํญ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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The Universal Relevance of Malala's Message


While Malala's quote emerges from her specific experience with educational oppression, its relevance extends to all forms of censorship and suppression. In democratic societies, we often overlook the freedom to express opinions, participate in public discourse, and access information until these rights face threats. From press freedom to social media censorship, from workplace discrimination to political oppression, Malala's words remind us to value and protect our voices before they are threatened. Her message resonates particularly strongly in today's world, where various forms of silencing—from authoritarian regimes to online harassment—continue to challenge free expression globally.

๋ง๋ž„๋ผ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ต์œก ์–ต์••์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๊ฒ€์—ด๊ณผ ์–ต์••์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ฃผ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ข…์ข… ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณต๊ณต ๋‹ด๋ก ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ •๋ณด์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ„๊ณผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ธ๋ก ์˜ ์ž์œ ์—์„œ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๊ฒ€์—ด, ์ง์žฅ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์—์„œ ์ •์น˜์  ์–ต์••์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ์˜ ๋ง์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ๊ถŒ์œ„์ฃผ์˜ ์ •๊ถŒ์—์„œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ํ‘œํ˜„์— ๊ณ„์† ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Living Malala's Wisdom Today


Malala's insight challenges us to actively appreciate and exercise our voices while we have them. This means speaking up against injustice, participating in democratic processes, supporting free press and education, and amplifying the voices of those who are silenced. Her quote also reminds us to listen carefully to those whose voices are suppressed or marginalized, recognizing that their perspectives are often the most crucial for understanding systemic problems. By embracing Malala's wisdom, we can work toward a world where no voice is silenced and where the fundamental right to expression and education is protected for all.

๋ง๋ž„๋ผ์˜ ํ†ต์ฐฐ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋„์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ถˆ์˜์— ๋งž์„œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์  ๊ณผ์ •์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์œ  ์–ธ๋ก ๊ณผ ๊ต์œก์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ , ์นจ๋ฌต๋‹นํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฆํญ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์–ต์••๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์†Œ์™ธ๋œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์˜ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ๋“ค์œผ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€์ ์ด ์ข…์ข… ์ฒด๊ณ„์  ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง๋ž„๋ผ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ž„์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋„ ์นจ๋ฌต๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„๊ณผ ๊ต์œก์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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