“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
— Malala Yousafzai
From Malala's speech at the United Nations Youth Assembly on July 12, 2013, her 16th birthday, nine months after being shot in the head by the Taliban.
On October 9, 2012, a man walked onto my school bus and shot me in the head because I wanted to go to school. I woke up weeks later in Birmingham, unable to speak, in a country I had never been to. Everyone expected silence. I chose to speak louder. If you feel like your voice is too small to matter, remember: they sent a gunman to silence one girl with a blog. One voice scared them that much.