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 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.
Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Education is the power terrorists fear most.
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
Education is the only solution. Education first.
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.
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
They only shot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.