Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai S.St is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth12 July 1997
CityMingora, Pakistan
CountryPakistan
I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world,
I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems, it's just one and it's education. You educate all the girls and boys. You give them the opportunity to learn.
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.
A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.
I believe in the power of the voice of women.
In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.
I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.
Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.
They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.
If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.
My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child