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Malala Yousafzai ملالہ یوسفزئی

1997 CE –

Malala Yousafzai ملالہ یوسفزئی‎ (1997 - )

Pakistani activist, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate at 17, "the most famous teenager in the world,” and listed by Time magazine 3 times as one of the world’s most influential people; Malala grew up in a the Swat Valley where the girls were banned from schools. Working hard for the education of women around the world, she was shot by a Taliban assassin in 2012 but thena group of 50 leading Muslim clerics issued a fatwa against the people who tried to kill her. Her book was banned by a 152,000-member Pakistan School Federation and though she is still broadly criticized in Pakistan for being too pro-Western; she didn’t hesitate when meeting with President Barack Obama and his family to challenge the use of drone strikes.

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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Quotes by Malala Yousafzai (8 quotes)

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Themes: Power

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

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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“We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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“extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education… of women”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Themes: Books

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“I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Themes: God

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“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Themes: Education

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“extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education… of women.”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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“But when you see death, things change. It doesn’t matter if you can’t smile or blink properly”

from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Chapters: 39. Oneness

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