“A Nobel Peace Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girls' education.”

— Malala Yousafzai, CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour (11 October 2013)

About Malala Yousafzai

Born 1997

Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2014), who campaigns for every girl's right to schooling.

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.”