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Women talk about peace
When three women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, they gave inspiring lectures about how the world must protect those who are suffering. All used metaphors in their speeches.
One of the winners, Tawakkol Karman (above) from Yemen, said that there were people in the world who were "still stumbling on the path of freedom".
A winner from Liberia, Leymah Roberta Gbowee, said that things were improving in her country because people were learning from their mistakes. "We had all seen that the use of violence was taking us and our beloved country deeper into the abyss of pains, death, and destruction.”
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, talked about how the media were helping to make people more aware about bad things happening in the world: "As curtains are raised and as the sun shines upon dark places, what was previously invisible comes into view."
Women talk about peace
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When three women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, they gave inspiring lectures about how the world must protect those who are suffering. All used metaphors in their speeches.
One of the winners, Tawakkol Karman (above) from Yemen, said that there were people in the world who were "still stumbling on the path of freedom".
A winner from Liberia, Leymah Roberta Gbowee, said that things were improving in her country because people were learning from their mistakes. "We had all seen that the use of violence was taking us and our beloved country deeper into the abyss of pains, death, and destruction.”
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, talked about how the media were helping to make people more aware about bad things happening in the world: "As curtains are raised and as the sun shines upon dark places, what was previously invisible comes into view."
