- You really are so impressive
and so inspirational,
and I am so happy
to have you here.
I watched the documentary,
I have read your book,
and if you haven't,
you must read this.
It's quite a story.
So you were shot in the face
at 15 years old,
and you have no anger towards
the man who shot you.
How is that possible?
- I think they made
a big mistake,
because I was fighting for
the right of education
right from the beginning when
the Taliban stopped girls
from going to school.
But I had this little bit
of fear that
what would happen to me,
how would I feel
if someone attacks me,
but after that incident
when I was attacked,
that fear just went away.
And as I said in my speech
at the United Nations
that my weakness, my fear,
and my hopelessness died
on that day.
And I became stronger
than before.
And now I strongly believe
that nothing can stop me,
in this mission
and this campaign of education,
to say that girls deserve
the right to go to school,
and I--it's the love of people
as well,
that has encouraged me
and helped me
not to think about what
I have been through in my life.
When I see people
praying for me,
taking care of me and sending
cards and letters every day,
it makes me stronger.
It makes me stronger every day,
and I feel that,
whatever happened to me,
I should now forget about it
and continue my life with more
courage and more work.
[cheers and applause]
- Well...
[cheers and applause]
I am so glad that you came out
of that experience
as this person we are lucky
to have you in the world,
because you're making such
a difference.
You were in a coma for how long?
- At least a week.
- And then it took you a long
time to learn how to...
- Yes.
- Speak and walk
and everything again.
- Then my parents came,
and the doctors,
they would bring the cards
that I had received,
and I just could not believe it.
It was astonishing that--
I'm going through this difficult
situation
but there's so much love
out there,
and it's helping me
to forget about
all the pain
that I'm going through.
- Yeah, there was a lot of love,
a lot of people,
and it really did raise
awareness in a way
that never had happened before.
Your parents are
in the audience right now,
and I know that your dad
empowered you tremendously.
How did he do that?
Well, my father always says,
"Ask me what I did
but ask me what I did not do,
and I did not clip her wings."
So he has not clipped my wings.
He has allowed me to fly,
high as I can, and this
is how we want parents to be,
to allow their children
to fulfill their dreams,
to achieve who they want to be.
It's not that girls
don't have the skill
or don't have the talent to do
something in their life.
It's that they are stopped
in society.
So my father did not do that.
He did not stop me,
and I'm really thankful to him;
also to my mother for giving me
this strength and this courage
to go forward.
A little bit to my brothers.
A little bit.
[audience laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- A little bit.
[cheers and applause]
That is so well put,
in every one of those things.
I love your brothers,
by the way.
It was good dancing with you.
It was really fun.
[audience laughter]
So you won
the Nobel Peace Prize,
and how did you find out
you won?
- So I was in my chemistry
lesson in school,
and--just studying about atoms
and those things--
and suddenly my teacher came
and she surprised me.
She said that "You have won
the Nobel Peace Prize."
And I said, "Okay."
[audience laughter]
And then I said, "I want to
finish my school,"
and--'cause I am standing up
for education,
and I have been given this award
because I am fighting
for children's rights to go
to school,
so I deserve this right
to study today in school,
finish my school day,
and then I'll go and have
press interviews and stuff.
- Right.
- So I finished that day.
- Instead of going to talk
to the press,
you finished your school day.
You just decide--well, and
that's why you are who you are.
[audience laughter]
So your big--I think that
what's important here
is that we take it
for granted here,
that girls go to school, and
that we are able to be educated,
but I think that that is really
important for young girls here
to understand that that's
not--that women and children
are not treated the same way
in other countries.
- Well, I see children having
this quality education,
having all the facilities--
classrooms, science labs--
but unfortunately, around
this world there are countries
where children do not even
have desks to sit
and they do not even
have chairs.
Some do not even have teachers
in their schools,
and some do not even have
schools at all.
And I really think that
education helps you
to get an identity.
It helps you to know about
your basic human rights.
It helps you to discover
about yourself,
about your talents,
about your skills,
and how you can help your
community and your society.
So I did not want
to be deprived of that,
of that opportunity myself,
and I want this for every child,
that no child should be deprived
of the basic human right
of education.
[cheers and applause]
- Yep.
[cheers and applause]
Amazing.
One thing that I love about you,
you're meeting all these world
leaders, and you're not shy.
You're meeting all these world
leaders and you say
exactly what you think
they should be doing.
You met with President Obama,
and you told him
he should stop flying drones.
You just said that to him.
- Well, him, as well as two--
the Congress members I met
in my last trip in June,
and it's very important
that you deliver your message
to the right people.
And if you say--
[audience laughter]
- Remember that, so y'all go
to him next time, okay?
[audience laughter]
- So if I, like--
if I feel shy
and if I think he would mind it,
then these issues would never
get highlighted.
So it's telling the world, just
reminding them of their duties.
You're not asking to do
something extra,
but you're reminding them that
these are their responsibility.
They need to listen
to their peoples' voices.
We want them to take action.
We want them to do something,
and it's important that
you highlight it to them.
- Yes, exactly.
[cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
18 years old.
18 years old,
I was very similar to this.
[audience laughter]
The problem that I see, because
I've watched the documentary,
and I've seen how many different
places that you go to speak.
Because you're 18
and you're shorter--
you're not
an adult-sized person yet.
[audience laughter]
There's podiums
that are too tall for you,
so I got you something.
So it has a quote of mine,
that says:
"Under every great woman
is a tiny stepstool."
[audience laughter]
And so...
Now--
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
Thank you.
- Sure.
Also, I know for
your 18th birthday,
there was something more
important for you than gifts,
and you wanted to give money
to a school
that you started, right?
Well, I would like to--
this is an amazing thing.
This is an iPad Air 2,
and it has over 100,000
educational apps,
and tens of thousands
of textbooks
at your fingertips in here,
and I want to make sure all
of your students in Lebanon
have the best possible
head start,
so they're going
to get this as well.
They're going to give you
200 of these.
- Oh, thank you.
Thank you so much.
- For more information on how
you can donate to the Malala
Fund, go to malala.org.
"He Named Me Malala" is
in theaters October 2nd.
We will be right back.
Malala, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
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