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Yousefzai made history as the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. 

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"[She] has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations,” Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said. 

Satyarthi was gracious in accepting the award and said, “If with my humble efforts the voice of tens of millions of children in the world who are living in servitude is being heard, congratulations to all.”

Read more at the New York Times.

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