Malala Yousafzai Quotes


A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.


Citations

Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

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Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai
  • Born: July 12, 1997
  • Nationality: Pakistani
  • Profession: Activist For Female Education, Former Blogger For BBC Urdu

Malala Yousafzai, often referred to mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.