Malala Yousafzai Gives Powerful Speech As She Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
- 9 years ago
Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old from Pakistan, was recently in Oslo to accept her Nobel Peace Prize and while doing so gave a very powerful speech.
Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old from Pakistan, was recently in Oslo to accept her joint Nobel Peace Prize and while doing so gave a very powerful speech.
In it she called powerful nations and their preference for wars and tanks over books and schools into question and stressed the importance of equal rights in education.
It was her determination to ensure that girls’ have the right to learn that brought her to the world’s attention in the first place.
Her refusal to stop campaigning for the cause resulted in her being shot in the head by a member of the Taliban.
In her speech she recalled coming to her decision to fight.
Yousafzai said, "Education went from being a right to being a crime. But when my world suddenly changed, my priorities changed, too. I had two options: One was to remain silent, and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up, and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up."
She plans use the money received from the Nobel Foundation to further the work of her organization, the Malala Fund.
Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old from Pakistan, was recently in Oslo to accept her joint Nobel Peace Prize and while doing so gave a very powerful speech.
In it she called powerful nations and their preference for wars and tanks over books and schools into question and stressed the importance of equal rights in education.
It was her determination to ensure that girls’ have the right to learn that brought her to the world’s attention in the first place.
Her refusal to stop campaigning for the cause resulted in her being shot in the head by a member of the Taliban.
In her speech she recalled coming to her decision to fight.
Yousafzai said, "Education went from being a right to being a crime. But when my world suddenly changed, my priorities changed, too. I had two options: One was to remain silent, and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up, and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up."
She plans use the money received from the Nobel Foundation to further the work of her organization, the Malala Fund.