With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
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Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially education of women in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has since grown into an international movement. Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role-models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humantarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu. On the afternoon of 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was injured after a Taliban gunman attempted to murder he
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban,' but the 'girl who fought for education.' This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.
Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.
If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?
I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.