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 don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.
I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.