Malala Yousafzai
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2,791 appearances
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7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 May
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TED Talks Daily · What I got wrong about changing the world | Malala Yousafzai · 14 Apr 2026
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I decided to become an activist.
I gave interviews at protests.
I spoke on television.
I wrote a blog for the BBC, and I appeared in a New York Times documentary.
I did everything I could to reach to our leaders and ask for their help.
Simply, for the crime of speaking out,
The Taliban tried to kill me, shooting me in the face at point-blank range.
I was 15 years old.
But with the help of many doctors and even more prayers, I survived.
Millions of people heard my story.
Presidents and prime ministers all over the world wanted to meet me.
I was finally in the rooms where decisions were made.
and I could bring attention to girls like me who did not have the opportunity to be in school.
And that's when I realized that changing the world wasn't as simple as pointing out the problems.
You had to argue for every policy change and budget increase, and you might have to get the support of as many people as possible, and you might have to advocate for months or even years to take one step forward.
Eventually, I came to believe that change was slow but steady, incremental but thankfully inevitable.
My foundation had been hope and optimism, faith that people would do the right thing, trust that when leaders said they cared about making our lives better, they meant it, even if it took longer than I wished.
But then, in a single day, my belief in progress shattered.
It was August 2021.
I was in the hospital, recovering from one last surgery to repair the facial paralysis I suffered after the attack.
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