Afghan Girl's Viral Speech On Women's Education

"I want to go to school." This young girl had some powerful thoughts about the Taliban and women's education...

Transcript

00:00I wasn't born to just eat, sleep and stay at home.

00:03I want to go to school.

00:04Who are these Taliban to take this opportunity and write from us?

01:00An opportunity has an aim to do something for the development of our country.

01:05Allah has given this opportunity.

01:08Women have equal rights.

01:09So who are these Taliban to take this opportunity and write from us?

01:13Today's girls are tomorrow's mother.

01:16If they don't have education, how could they teach manners to their children?

01:21I am from new generation.

01:23I wasn't born to just eat, sleep and stay at home.

01:26I want to go to school.

01:28I want to do something for the development of my country.

01:32Can you imagine it?

01:33How a country can develop without education?

01:36If I don't get education, if any girl in Afghanistan don't get education,

01:43so how our next generation would be well-mannered?

01:48If we don't get education, we will have no value in this world.