Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. Because, for her, the only way to liberate people to freedom is to study, because the study is so powerful that it will help eliminate the folly of poverty and inequality in society, so she said, "Our books and pens, a handful of us came up, it was an over mass weapons. One kid, one book, one teacher and one of these pens can change the world. " After the Attack, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014, she was nominated again and won, becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.