Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Roberta Gboweeis 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. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize...
NationalityLiberian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth1 February 1972
CountryLiberia
Leymah Gbowee quotes about
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.
If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.
Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.
You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.
My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.
'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.
It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.
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.
The world is waiting to hear from you.
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.