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

Day 1763: Happy 18th Birthday Malala

Leave a reply

“It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn’t matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

 

It’s 12 : 49  PM on day 1763 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Zachariah 13, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature,   learn one new thing –Salient [sa·li·ent] adj.  1. Strikingly conspicuous; prominent.  “A salient argument.”– and promote my Educate Generations campaign – $3 301 raised so far and I’m working on a new way that people can support this campaign so things are looking great 🙂 .

 

As you may or may not know today is Malala Yousafzai’s 18th birthday I’ve never met her but through her book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, and her interviews she taught me more about courage than anybody else on the planet there’s this moment in the book where she says (I’m paraphrasing) I had two choices I could either speak up and die or stay silent and die so I chose to speak up how many of us would speak up about something knowing it could cost us our lives I don’t know if I would but Malala did and that’s why me and others think she is the bravest girl in the world. Happy birthday Malala the world is truly blessed to have you.

Day 1286: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Leave a reply

“On my sixteenth birthday I was in New York to speak at the United Nations. Standing up to address an audience inside the vast hall where so many world leaders have spoken before was daunting, but I knew what I wanted to say. ‘This is your chance Malala,’ I said to myself. Only 400 people were sitting around me, but when I looked out, I imagined millions more. I did not write the speech only with the UN delegates in mind; I wrote it for every person around the world who could make a difference. I wanted to reach all people living in poverty, those children forced to work and those who suffer from terrorism or lack of education. Deep in my heart I hoped to reach every child who could take courage from my words and stand up for his or her rights.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

 

It’s 12  : 05  PM on day 1286 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  pray,   brush my teeth, read Job 20, publish my Disability of the Day feature, promote my Eradicate AIDS campaign – no donation so far –  feed myself egg with bread for breakfast  and continue promoting my campaign – still  no luck .

 

Yesterday afternoon I finished reading I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb the book recounts the events leading up to Malala Yousafzai’s shooting and from the book you get a sense of what kind of person Malala is and what her life was like in Pakistan I really love this book it proves that anybody can change the world.