Leymah Gbowee
b. 1972 · Liberia · Peace
Nobel Peace Prize, 2011
Led the women's movement that ended Liberia's civil war.
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- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968 · Peace, Philosophy
Gbowee's mass nonviolent women's action follows the King–Gandhi repertoire.
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Kate Sheppard
1848 – 1934Won the world's first national women's vote in 1893.
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1869 – 1948Turned nonviolent resistance into a working political technology.
Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013Twenty-seven years in prison, then negotiated the end of apartheid without civil war.