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born 1997 Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani human rights and education activist who was jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi, becoming its youngest recipient ever, at the age of 17.
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Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2014)
We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it.
This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.
I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.
In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential.
There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.
They think that God is a tiny, little conservative being who would point guns at people’s heads just for going to school.
On my way from school to home I heard a man saying “I will kill you.” I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
It is my dream that one day, great buildings like this one will exist in every corner of the world so every child can grow up with the opportunity to succeed.
Dear sisters and brothers, we realise the importance of light when we see darkness. We realise the importance of our voice when we are silenced.
They support me and they are encouraging me to move forward and to continue my campaign for girls' education.
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'.
Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan.
My father says that education is neither Eastern or Western. Education is education: it's the right of everyone.
The thing is that the people of Pakistan have supported me. They don't think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani.
I don’t know where to begin my speech. I don’t know what people would be expecting me to say, but first of all thank you to God for whom we are equal and thank you to every person who has prayed for my fast recovery and new life.
The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2014)
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