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
Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
There's no one who has been living for centuries.
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.