FEMALE NARRATOR The following recording is from a speech Malala Yousafzai gave at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The original church of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. MALALA YOUSAFZAI Men and women like Dr. King, John Lewis, Rosa Parks, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mother Theresa, Bacha Khan, Anne Frank, and Gandhi—and many before them—paved a road to justice and humanity for every one of us. Dear sisters and brothers, we are still walking down their road today. When girls cannot go to school, the road gets longer. When families flee war and terror in Myanmar, Syria, and Colombia and we turn our backs on them, the road gets longer. When my father, who risked his life to stand up to extremists, is detained at airports and assumed to be one of them, the road gets longer. When police kill a child playing with a toy or a man out for a drive with his family, the road gets longer. When people march in the streets and proudly bear the flags of humanity’s most shameful days, the road gets longer. When the leader of this country refuses to stand against hate, the road gets longer. Like the prophet Jeremiah, some days I am weary. I know you are, too. I know that I may walk this road for the rest of my life and never reach the end. But I will walk with you. And I hope you will walk with me. We will walk this road together. Toward the end of his journey, Dr. King asked, “Where do we go from here?” His answer — and mine — is we go forward. Go forward for justice. Go forward with hope. Go forward in peace. God is good Congregation: all the time. And all the time Congregation: God is good. Thank you.