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 discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.
We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.
I want world leaders to choose books over bullets...We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility.
A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.
Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.
Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.