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
You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.
Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
It is the woman who controls the whole house...it's her job, that's what she's supposed to do...We have to change this idea that women are not only supposed to work in the house...but she also has the ability to go outside and do business, to be a doctor, to be a teacher, to be an engineer, she should be allowed to have any job she likes. She should be treated equally, as men are.
This is what my soul is telling me, be peaceful and love everyone.
I had two options One was to remain silent and wait to be killed and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.