I Am Malala

“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard.”

-Malala Yousafzai

Malala is an activist for many things, such as women’s rights. She survived a shot by the Taliban extremists when she was 15 years old. After being shot, she devoted her life to being an activist for women’s rights, also known as gender equality. There are 8 billion people in the world, but not all of them have all their rights. Rights might seem to us to be the most basic things in our lives, but they are precious for those who couldn’t get them. In some countries, men are the main part of society, and women are usually thought of and told to be at home.

Malala Yousafzai was not only an activist for women’s rights, but also one for peace. She once said in her famous speech that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 that “the pen is mightier than the sword.”

Education is the main core of building oneself, and Malala wishes that books and pens could be given to everyone. When a person is fighting for something, it is important to know what they are fighting for. Malala isn’t just fighting for the people in Pakistan, but the whole world.

I learned from Malala that a dream will always be a dream if you do not work towards it. Nothing would be given to you easily; you would have to fight for it. Yes, education can be sometimes boring, but it is always good for you. Out of the billions of people in the world, more than 200 million couldn’t gain education and rights. Everyone is important, but some don’t have a voice. It is for us who have a voice that could speak and let others hear our voice to fight.

Fighting for the rights of others is not just for the other 251 million people in the world, but also for you.