“So it's my message to children all around the world that they should stand up for their rights.”

— Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speech (10 October 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.”

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

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”

“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”