I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

by Malala Yousafzai

Instead, he consoled me by telling me about the mistakes great heroes had made when they were children. Heroes like Mahatma Gandhi, the great pacifist, and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: “A child is a child when he’s a child, even if he’s a prophet.”

you hit a Talib with your shoe, there is no difference between him and you. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight them with peace and dialogue.

The Taliban shot me to try to silence me. Instead, the whole world was listening to my message now.

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