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born 1972 Liberia
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003 that led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president. In 2011, she was one of three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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We are all responsible. We are all complicit. White T-shirts catch the light. What matters is what we then do with that light. (The peace activists wore white t-shirts during their protests.)
Peace for me is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of conditions that give dignity to all of us – conditions like housing, everything – peace is the presence of those conditions that give dignity to all.
It's important for teachers to interact with people of all fields so that there’s an understanding that we are mentoring, we are raising, the next generation of young people who understand what dignity is. Because in the absence of dignity, people get disenchanted.
The world is at a place now where we have to move away from our silo kind of operations into a more collaborative. I think you can’t talk peace without teachers.
I am one representative of the thousands of Liberian women who stood with me in the rain, sat with me in the sun, and joined me in protest.
We have a saying: “A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.” So here are three things African women can do to support their sisters and daughters
A whole generation of young men had no idea who they were without a gun in their hands. Several generations of women were widowed, had been raped, seen their daughters and mothers raped, and their children kill and be killed. Neighbors had turned against neighbors; young people had lost hope, and old people, everything they had painstakingly earned. To a person, we were traumatized.
Leymah; Mithers, Carol (2011)
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