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
Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.
I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.
My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up
Education is the power terrorists fear most.
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
If people were silent, nothing would change.
For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.
They only shot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced
I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.