4 'children' other than Greta Thunberg who displayed the same fiery passion to win their battles
India TodayWhile climate change deniers are up in arms against 16-year-old Greta Thunberg for her fiery speech at the UN Climate Summit on September 24 and are often referring to her as a child, let’s not forget that some of the most outspoken women in history did their pioneering work at the tender age of 16. Joan of Arc, Anne Frank, Jane Austen and from the modern times, Malala Yousafzai, are some of the other notable 'children’ who shook up their own adversaries before Greta Thunberg came on the scene to rail against 'fairy tales of eternal economic growth' in the face of a mass extinction. Read: 16-year-old climate warrior Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize: Why her call for a climate march is so important While Greta Thunberg is taking the money-hungry world by its horns and shaking it till it understands its priorities, here are four other young women who refused to 'act their age': 1. The young Jewish girl is known by her diary called 'The Diary of a Young Girl' or 'The Diary of Anne Frank' which is a series of diary entries she noted down when she and her family went into hiding along with thousands of others in Germany during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in the World War II. Read: 22 years of Malala Yousafzai, the young revolutionary changing the education scene for Muslim women Interested in General Knowledge and Current Affairs?
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