In Liberia women had been oppressed.
Leymah Gbowee rallied them to rise up. She ran a workshop.
"We are not lawyers, activists, or wives here. We are not Christians or Muslims, we are not from the... tribes. We are not indigenous or elite. We are only women."
In 2002, a Christian-Muslim alliance of woman shocked Monrovia with a march to city hall of 200 women, alternating Christian hymns and Muslim songs.
"[A]s the women... gathered together, my fear, depression and loneliness were finally wiped away."
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