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Leymah Roberta Gbowee é uma ativista africana encarregada de organizar o movimento de paz que colocou fim à Segunda Guerra Civil da Libéria em 2003. Tal conduziu à eleição de Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf como a primeira mulher presidente de um país africano. Gbowee foi em 2011 uma das três personalidades galardoadas com o prémio Nobel da paz junto com a sua compatriota Sirleaf e a iemenita Tawakkol Karman. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Fevereiro 1972
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Leymah Gbowee: Frases em inglês

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

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Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize (2009)

“Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.”

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Interview for Women's E News, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (2008)

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

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Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize (2009)

“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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Interview for The Daily Beast (April 5, 2010)

“We have a saying: “A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.” So here are three things African women can do to support their sisters and daughters:”

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