"When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people."

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It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

— Leymah Gbowee