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Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
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If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.
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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.]
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Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop.
My answer to her: I never will.
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We go into rural communities, and all we do - like has been done in this room [at TED] - is create the space. When these girls sit... you unlock great leaders.
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
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You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
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It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.
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February 1, 1972
(age 53)
Bio:
Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
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