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Top 30 Leymah Gbowee Quotes (2025 Update)

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “When women gather, great things will happen.”

1. “When women gather, great things will happen.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.”

2. “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “The world is upside down, it’s going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.”

3. “The world is upside down, it’s going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “The world is waiting to hear from you.”

4. “The world is waiting to hear from you.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “It is our duty to stand up for humanity. Step in and correct things that are wrong.”

6. “It is our duty to stand up for humanity. Step in and correct things that are wrong.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

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

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

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.”

9. “There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”

10. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “You cannot say you’ve achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!”

11. “You cannot say you’ve achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.”

12. “We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “Gather the women to pray for peace!”

14. “Gather the women to pray for peace!”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it’s as if the flesh of your heart and mind gets cut away, piece by piece, like slices taken off a ham. Finally, there is nothing left but bone.”

17. “When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it’s as if the flesh of your heart and mind gets cut away, piece by piece, like slices taken off a ham. Finally, there is nothing left but bone.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “I don’t feel like I’ve done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.”

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

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “Do one good thing everyday, that someone is afraid to do.”

19. “Do one good thing everyday, that someone is afraid to do.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.”

20. “Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.”

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

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “I’m now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.”

25. “I’m now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.”

— Leymah Gbowee

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

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

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “You can’t cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can’t negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can’t become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.”

28. “You can’t cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can’t negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can’t become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.”

— Leymah Gbowee

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

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

— Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Quote: “When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don’t remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.”

30. “When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don’t remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.”

— Leymah Gbowee

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