On April 4th, 1968 a bullet cut short the live of Dr. Martin Luther King, whose dream transformed the US to a better nation.

Exactly one year ago today, a bullet tore through a child’s head, fired by a Taliban ‘fighter’. He wanted to murder 15 year old Malala for her crime of wanting to go to school.

Malala has a dream – a dream that few women in her part of the world would dare to dream. This dream, too, can transform our world into a better place.

The bullet did not kill Malala. But it extinguished her fear. It gave her purpose. The world noticed.

“The Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

Malala, 16, speaking at the UN, July 12, 2013

Few people have the strength, ability, and courage to move the world. Malala dreams of a world where every woman can have the education she wants.

The world should listen when it’s now Malala who says: ‘I have a dream’.