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
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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.
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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.
When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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.
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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.