Quotes by Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee

‘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.

Children

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Girl

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

Fake

Towels

Women

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

Body

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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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Voice

Don’t wait for a Gandhi, don’t wait for a King, don’t wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

Believe In Yourself

Hero

Kings

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.

People

War

Water

I don’t feel like I’ve done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.

Darkness

Light

Shining

I’m a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Country

Hopeful

Littles

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

Ifs

Made

Mother

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

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Justice

Should

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Quotes by Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee

‘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.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

Don’t stop, echoes the older Liberian lady’s voice. Don’t ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.

Don’t wait for a Gandhi, don’t wait for a King, don’t wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

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.

I don’t feel like I’ve done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.

I’m a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

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

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

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