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
Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.
If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.
It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.