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 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 believe the gun has no power at all.
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.