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What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee Knows for Sure About Anger
As told to Leigh Newman
Original Content Dec 7 2011  Photo: Getty Images Leymah Gbowee helped stop the civil war in shattered Liberia by leading the women of the country in a protest for peace—a movement which included denying sex to the men of the country until the fighting ended. In her personal life, she has survived domestic abuse and alcoholism, both detailed in her poignant new memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers. This week, a few days before she accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, she talks with Oprah.com about one of humanity’s most powerful emotions.
Anger is Not Bad We’ve placed so much emphasis on the negativeness of anger that people see anger as evil. It is not. How you respond to anger, however, will determine your future. Anger drives the villains to create problems in their community, and anger drives the heroes to constructively look for change. Consider Your Container Never Deny Your Rage Anger is Inspiration Martin Luther King did not do everything he did in America because he was happy. He was angry at the state of the black people. He was angry at the level of suffering that they were going through. Gandhi, too, was angry, and Mandela. People do not go into fighting injustice because they are so content. Sometimes You Must Fight Sometimes You Must Not Fight Anger is Opportunity Leymah Gbowee’s mission: Defy a dictator, end a war, return her native Liberia to peace.This article is taken directly as it was written from http://www.oprah.com and none of the writing is my own. I have taken this article and not changed it for good reason: it is perfect as it is. The author speaks volumes about truth: about change and about movements starting with one small step of injustice. Today Leymah Gbowee recieved her Nobel Peace Prize and the look on her face as she stepped up to accept her due was absolutely beautiful. So here’s what makes me mad and it correlates to this article. Women make up 53% of the population in the world and we own 1% of the wealth. There are ten million millionaires in the world right now and 27% of them are women. We are the 99%..we are in need of a movement my friends. We cannot wait for others to change this it is up to us. Inequality comes in many forms but poverty is the basis for most of it. In North America for sure we have the ability to make as much money as we want but we women do not believe that to be true. Come join my movement: Helping Millions Make Millions: and see how you can be part of the movement/ to create massive change in your life/ to create massive change in your family and to live your best life at the same time. This is the time to prove that women hold equal value in every aspect of life including financial power. Money is NOT evil but evil people with money can be. Money is NOT scarce and Money is NOT hard to come by. There is most definitely no Prince Charming who’s going to keep you safe and warm in your castle and there is most definitely no reason in the world (except for your own beliefs) for you to not be doing what you love and making yourself rich at the same time. It’s your time: are you ready? Now go be fearless! OPRAH is a registered trademark of Harpo, Inc. All rights reserved. For full list of trademarks, click here.
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What an incredible woman! She is one of three women who won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
I wrote an article for WE Magazine for Women about all three of them…
http://wemagazineforwomen.com/finally-the-world-is-listening/
Thanks for posting this interview Janet!
Well, you’ve got me all fired up! I followed a link from Karyn Climans who recommended you. I value her opinion so I decided to take a look. I agree with what you say and I really like your writing style. This week I told my close friend I was going to hire a life coach. Let’s see where this goes!
Kim