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
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
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 hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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.
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.
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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.
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.