Leymah Gbowee : Money, greed, ethnicity, absolute power.
Leymah Gbowee : The warlords would give these boys guns and send them off.
Leymah Gbowee : You go to bed saying, "God, please what do we do?"
Leymah Gbowee : We stepped out first and did the unimaginable.
Leymah Gbowee : Well, it's amazing to be here, I'm just overwhelmed.
Leymah Gbowee : Well it is.
Leymah Gbowee : Yeah.
Leymah Gbowee : Well, first, besides being blown away by Google, Google, I'm happy to be here.
Leymah Gbowee : We grew, I grew up in Liberia and Liberia is a country that many commentators of history will tell you the history of Liberia in itself is conflict.
Leymah Gbowee : They got together and they really struggled.
Leymah Gbowee : So we grew up with that kind of community.
Leymah Gbowee : Can grow up.
Leymah Gbowee : I went to university.
Leymah Gbowee : In 1996, I, I was with my kids' father and he wasn't the best love.
Leymah Gbowee : I have two and a half.
Leymah Gbowee : Yes.
Leymah Gbowee : So we, we woke up that morning, but the night before where I live I live in my parents' house.
Leymah Gbowee : Well, when we, we, we, the one thing I tell people is that what I saw in my mother was what every other mother had gone through.
Leymah Gbowee : My, my life had taken a dip like many of us and I is nothing that you can compare to anyone.
Leymah Gbowee : On my parents' couch.
Leymah Gbowee : Well he's old, so I have to take care of him, that's what I've been taught to do.
Leymah Gbowee : But this night we're standing out and we've swept the grass and put it in a drum and it's like a bonfire and my mother asked me, "What do you want to do with your
Leymah Gbowee : And then I went, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, give me the strength not to box this child." Leymah Gbowee : So I said, "Well, let me think about it", and then I came back to her
Leymah Gbowee : We went to the peace talks first real All of the work we did we were naīve.
Leymah Gbowee : So we had to send women to the window to seize that side of the window.
Leymah Gbowee : We got African first female president.
Leymah Gbowee : Definitely because I have no idea, my work is protest, my work is women's issue, I took out my iPad because I was at Google and I wanted to feel like I'm part
Leymah Gbowee : And so, but just to think about the youth, think about technology, think about where the world is and what kind of assistance not just for Liberia but for other
Leymah Gbowee : You know I always get this question, were you afraid?
Leymah Gbowee : Well, you know this country, the sex industry keeps the financial wheel
Leymah Gbowee : I'll tell you a story.
Leymah Gbowee : Even if your pants are sagging, we will not be looking at that other part, we will look at your brain because you, too, are doing something to keep the wheels of
Leymah Gbowee : It is really very serious.
Leymah Gbowee : Um hmm.
Leymah Gbowee : Please do, please because if you don't I will do my own YouTube video and say YouTube why are you not doing this?
And when Leymah Gbowee , the woman I referenced from Liberia-- her success was in organizing women to end the war, end the
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Leymah Gbowee : Growing up we, my parents are both from indigenous background and they
Leymah Gbowee : Because I was pregnant.
Leymah Gbowee : Their communities were still functioning.
Leymah Gbowee : Yeah.
Leymah Gbowee : And we're fighting to reelect her again.
We were able to do internet camp in Monrovia Leymah Gbowee : Ok.
Leymah Gbowee : But since I bought it, I don't know the futures.
Leymah Gbowee : So those women we are now in Liberia to observe the elections, but what they're observing is not the conventional thing.
Leymah Gbowee : If I could put it that way.
science and math together with the arts are really are-- Leymah Gbowee : You need to take it out of Silicon Valley because I, I'm telling you
Leymah Gbowee : Thongs.
Leymah Gbowee : Let Google not only should you show kids, young women with brains here to inspire other young women.