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Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to...

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood

Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provi...

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but somet...

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You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really ca...

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container a...

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The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry a...

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood

Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they as...

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Leymah Gbowee

Peace activist

Born: 1972-02-01

Died: N/A

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.More