Malala Yousafzai has spent her life advocating for girls’ education — surviving an assassination attempt at 15, meeting with world leaders and then watching hard-won progress collapse when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. That moment of despair forced her to completely rethink what it means to create change, and what she discovered replaced her shattered optimism with something more powerful and more honest. Hear how to keep fighting for the future you want, even when hope feels lost. (Recorded at TED2026 on April 14, 2026)
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@hayleyevertriedthisone
April 14, 2026 at 5:50 pm
i love this this, malala inspires me so much
@marvenscharles5030
April 14, 2026 at 5:52 pm
Thanks 🙏 lord you a life
@ingusbingus8750
April 14, 2026 at 5:53 pm
wow, malala so inspiring awesomeballs
@marvenscharles5030
April 14, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Only God can save you at this time 🎉
@thekaxmax
April 14, 2026 at 6:02 pm
God gave you hands and a mind; protest, contact your representatives.
@MOHAMEDTABCAMOHAMED
April 14, 2026 at 6:06 pm
Thanks my sister ❤❤❤
@WalkerTrips
April 14, 2026 at 6:16 pm
A legend worthy of a Sabaton song. Keep going.
@MayconMiranda-n4u
April 14, 2026 at 6:26 pm
JENNIFER DOUDNA Pará o prêmio nobal!!!!!!!
@DS-pe8tt
April 14, 2026 at 6:43 pm
Yes, in this country, too elimination of DEI and universal of a lot of inclusion progress we seen in this country. That progress isn’t guaranteed and continual progress isn’t guaranteed either.
@lawrencefrost9063
April 14, 2026 at 11:27 pm
You gotta be fucking kidding me. What she is talking about has nothing to do with DEI. It’s equality in it’s REAL meaning.
@ba3787
April 15, 2026 at 5:19 am
I’m much much more in favor of class based DEI.
Still, if you want “talent” it would be middle class, Kissinger, Komer, Brezhinski, William DePuy, most of the American national security state in those days were middle to upper middle class.
@blueberry5992
April 14, 2026 at 7:05 pm
1:00 Islam
@sadiqabbas8950
April 14, 2026 at 9:05 pm
Phobia!
@HARE_KRISHNA_RADHEY
April 14, 2026 at 9:32 pm
@sadiqabbas8950 quran chapter 4 verse 34… Aahh I can see a reason fs😂😂
@sweetsushiness
April 14, 2026 at 7:05 pm
she’s collaborates with hillary clinton which tells you all you need to know about her values
@rileyabarker
April 14, 2026 at 7:38 pm
Did you even watch the talk
@MAORIguy25
April 14, 2026 at 8:45 pm
If she collaborated with trump, she’d be rug pulling crypto or something
@sweetsushiness
April 15, 2026 at 2:01 am
@rileyabarkernope
@texasd1385
April 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Your comment tells me you have been consumed by idiocy and right wing nonsense because you are easily terrified and eagerly gullible
@sweetsushiness
April 15, 2026 at 4:38 am
hillary is right wing?
@800pondg
April 14, 2026 at 7:24 pm
マララさんの勇気は本当に素晴らしいです。
@MegaSnail1
April 14, 2026 at 8:12 pm
Yes we are always stronger together. So inspiring. Thank you for your courage and faith.
@ajfromtheparkk
April 14, 2026 at 9:07 pm
I know this is going to be good
@AzharAli-n5c
April 14, 2026 at 9:09 pm
Awesome 👍👍👍
@sadiqabbas8950
April 14, 2026 at 9:09 pm
Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) was an American nonviolence activist and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza on March 16, 2003,
@markmuller7962
April 14, 2026 at 9:21 pm
Malala for president!
@LinchpinDrama
April 14, 2026 at 10:12 pm
Hope is more valuable than being a billionaire; someone who woke with Hope has more than someone who wakes cynical. Stay ambitious sis’. Keep consulting with us and as you grow please do not let the power you gain over time grow you ego. Return to Afghanistan in 30 years, as its President. Do it.
@AjmalKhan-Zahir
April 14, 2026 at 10:33 pm
She faced a very hard time in the past for women’s education so keep going malala yosufzai. 🎉🎉
@5911JHOTA
April 15, 2026 at 12:20 am
Still hasn’t said a word about killing of children in Iran and Palestine. A puppet of the western media.
@reyley1014
April 15, 2026 at 12:32 am
Has every Palestinian and Iranian activist spoken out about the Taliban in Afghanistan? Not everyone needs to have exactly the same opinion about exactly the same things in order to work towards change. Her focus is on Afghanistan, there are other people who focus on other atrocities and that’s ok
@WajidAziz-l9t
April 15, 2026 at 3:08 am
You may get me wrong. I from Afghanistan.i also appose the decision of my government that they don’t allow girls to be at school and so on. But this girl malala i believe that she is not worried that much about girls education,this is just politics. It goes without saying that she is supported not to raise a
Sound for girls just to defame the government of Afghanistan. I know this is right girls are not allowed to go to school. But they can speak in public and ask about anything they want. People who know a little bit politics they better better what are their porpose. You have been informed about isteam files. People who talk about human’s right . They rapped Children and ate their flesh. All in all, this is just a game we don’t know what is their exact purposes.
@azfarsyed3889
April 15, 2026 at 3:42 am
Malala must be condemn of America and Israel on Iran girls school attack ,if she trust on humanity 😢😢😢
@lilys-pad
April 15, 2026 at 3:43 am
In the age of science and debunking religious dogma as myth , why does she still cover her head ? She’s like a brand ambassador for keeping up with Islamic BS despite the atrocities .
@DoubleJHunting
April 15, 2026 at 3:53 am
She so chopped
@Cricketeeeeeeeeeee
April 15, 2026 at 6:25 am
her town is still in the same condition where she left it
@Maan-gq6sg
April 15, 2026 at 8:18 am
True leadership is not about pleasing everyone it is about standing firm in your values, even in the face of criticism.
@knownpavan
April 15, 2026 at 8:46 am
The bigger the fight the bolder you have to be…
@ShihabudeenAreekod
April 15, 2026 at 9:13 am
You never talked about Gaza girls
Iran School massacre done by USA
@aNicerPlace
April 15, 2026 at 12:14 pm
5:20 How about banning the source of religious doctrine?
@gracetaylor5341
April 15, 2026 at 1:08 pm
Thanks for your service to the world
@rosemarychin-id2od
April 15, 2026 at 3:36 pm
A beautiful world managed by all sorts…lady i support U.
@guppygrease9767
April 15, 2026 at 6:25 pm
Freedom to speak questions and answers in sustainability everyone benefit same. Think, trust simple function mom and pop operations nobody missing. Together human superpower, men made up hate cancer fear most. Peace is Win!
@RadicalValidation
April 15, 2026 at 7:19 pm
I am incredibly moved by this! Let hope and freedom ring on!