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Rebecca Lolosoli Quotes

born 1962 Kenya

Rebecca Samaria Lolosoli (born 1962) is the founder and matriarch of the Umoja village in Samburu County of Kenya.The village is a refuge for women fleeing sexual abuse, and men are banned from the village.

Kenya
Activists

Also known as: Rebecca Samaria Lolosoli

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Women don't have to put up with this nonsense any more.

Education is most important so they won't be in the dark like us.

Women have to demand rights, and then respect will come.

A Samburu woman does not have a single right.

We are fighting for the rights of women, the rights of weak families, and the rights of girls.

Wearing green uniforms they blended with the trees and when women collected firewood, the soldiers would jump out and rape them, laughing like it was a game

Even in danger, I've never stopped

We are like property because we are part of the dowry

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rebecca Lolosoli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.