Malala Yousafzai says she felt “more powerful and courageous” after learning that she shares the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. The youngest-ever winner spoke after finishing classes at school in England. (Oct. 10)
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Birmingham, England – October 10, 2014
1. SOUNDBITE (English): Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize Laureate:
“It’s sometimes quite difficult to express your feelings, but I felt really honored. I felt more powerful and more courageous because this award is not just a piece of metal or a medal that you would wear, an award you would keep in your room but this is an encouragement for me to go forward and believe in myself. To know that there are people supporting me in this campaign and we are standing together. We want to make sure that all children get quality education. So this is really, this is really something great for me.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English): Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize Laureate:
“One is from Pakistan, one is from India. One believes in Hinduism, one strongly believes in Islam and it gives a message to people. It gives a message to people of love between “Pakistan and India and between different religions and we both support each other. It does not matter what is the color of your skin, what language you speak, what religion you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other and we should all fight for our rights and the rights of children, for the rights of women and for the rights of every human being.”
STORYLINE:
Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to their own lives.
By honoring a 17-year-old Muslim girl from Pakistan and a 60-year-old Hindu man from India, the Norwegian Nobel Committee linked the peace award to conflicts between world religions and neighboring nuclear powers as well as drawing attention to children’s rights.
When she was a student there, Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago for insisting that girls as well as boys have the right to an education.
Surviving several operations with the help of British medical care, she continued both her activism and her studies.
Appropriately, Malala was at school Friday in the central English city of Birmingham when the Nobel was announced and remained with her classmates at the Edgbaston High School for girls.
