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Malala went back to school 9 months after being shot 

Attacked on her school bus at 15 for insisting girls should be educated, she survived, kept campaigning, and became the youngest Nobel laureate in history at 17.

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Rosa Parks was not simply tired

She was a trained secretary of her local NAACP chapter who had studied civil disobedience. Her refusal in 1955 launched a bus boycott that lasted 381 days.

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One woman's movement planted 50 million trees

Wangari Maathai paid rural Kenyan women a few cents per surviving seedling. The Green Belt Movement reforested hillsides and won her the Nobel Peace Prize.

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