Nine months after a gunman shot her on a bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley for demanding education for girls, Malala Yousafzai received multiple standing ovations at the United Nations Youth Assembly in New York.
Ms Yousafzai showed the attack on her had done nothing to dim her passion for girls' education.
"Let us pick up our books and pens, they are our most powerful weapons," she said.
"One child, one teacher ... can change the world."
"I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists," she said.
"Education is the only solution.
"They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed and out of that silence came thousands of voices.
"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died.
"I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group.
"I do not even hate the talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him."
Ms Yousafzai presented UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a petition signed by 4 million people in support of 57 million children around the world who are not able to go to school
It demanded that world leaders fund new teachers, schools and books and end child labor, marriage and trafficking.
Ban Ki-moon said the UN was committed to a target of getting all children in school by the end of 2015
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