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 am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.
I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.
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 had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.