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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.

— Leymah Gbowee

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Women bring the human side of the conflict on the table.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

If you’re coming to be an activist because you want to make money: NO!

"All across Africa, even in the midst of the deepest and darkest civil war, women are still proving that we can hold communities together."

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