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

— Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Lecture (10 December 2014)

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.”

“Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?”

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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”

“Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me.”

“God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”