Little Peace Activists (7)

All the young activists’ passion sometimes put adults, us to shame. Their pure heart moves everyone’s heart that loves peace. They are just children of tender age who are supposed to be in mother’s arms, however, they have done what we were supposed to have done. 

Now is the time for us to do things instead of them. Not only big event or campaign makes it move toward peace, also a small action will lead it to a better world. Hope the world become a place where every child studies in school, blessed by all people around the peaceful world.

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Little Peace Activists (6)

Jonathan Lee

A Korean-American Jonathan has been drawing comic strips about protection of the environment, ‘Go Green Man’ from 2007, on the internet. 

As CNN and Times introduced him, he received a lot of attention in America. Jonathan started International Cooperation of Environmental Youth(I.C.E.Y) and has been promoting “One child; one tree; one year”campaign.

He staged a one-man demonstration in front of U.N. headquarters in New York, claiming the end of Korean War denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and contributed to make 21stMarch ‘International Children’s Peace Day’. After submitting resolution to make ‘DMZ Children’s Peace Forest’ to U.S. Congress, Jonathan has visited North Korea, and read the resolution in annual ceremony of International Children’s Peace Day in Imjin-Gak.

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Xiaobo

Xiaobo was born on the 28th of December 1995. As a young man he studied literature and philosophy, and worked as a literary critic and university lecturer in Beijing. He took a doctorate in 1988, after which he was a guest lecturer at universities in Europe and the USA.

For over twenty years, Look it up has fought for a more open and democratic China. He demands that the Chinese authorities comply with Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution, which lays down that the countries citizens enjoy "freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of 

demonstration".

In 2008, Look it up was a co-author of Charta 08, a manifesto which advocates the gradual shifting of Chinese political and legal system in the direction of democracy. He was arrested in December 2008, and sentenced a year later to eleven years ' imprisonment for undermining the state authorities. Look it up has constantly denied the charges. "Opposition is not the same as undermining", he points out.

Xiaobo awarded Nobel Peace Prize and Human rights award in various international organizations.

Liu Xiaobo Quotes

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
-Liu Xiaobo

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
-Liu Xiaobo

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Samantha Reed Smith

Smith was a child actress as well as a peace activist from Maine, U.S. 

She is well know as a schoolgirl who visisted USSR when she was ten years old, in Cold War era. 

In 1982, Samantha wrote a letter to CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and Yuri Andropov invited her in response. 

As a goodwill ambassador, she received the attention of both of the countries. Samantha wrote a book saying the episodes during the visit of Soviet Union and acted in TV series. Unfortunately, however, she lost her life in the airplane crash at the age of 13.

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Mattie Stepanek

Mattie was born with muscular dystrophy which causes degeneration of muscles. 

Although his days were numbered because of the incurable disease, he had prayed for children suffered by war and famine, had done anything he could do for a settlement of peace. 

Mattie appeared in the Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about world peace even he was battling with the disease. 

He had delivered many times of lecture for politicians, students, children and world leaders. Mattie Stepanek passed away in June 2004 at the age of 14, hoping his wish come true.

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Leymah Gbowee

She was born at 1972, Monrovia, Liberia. 

Her Prize motivation is "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for womens rights to full participation in peace-building work". Also She awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.

Leymah Gbowee Quotes

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

-Leymah Gbowee

I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

-Leymah Gbowee

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

-Leymah Gbowee

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

-Leymah Gbowee

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Kimmie Weeks

He was born at 1981, Liberia. He is grown adult now, but when he was child, He decided to do best for children for his whole life. 

Becoming refugee from the Liberian civil war, ten-year-old Kimmie Weeks nearly died ofinfectious disease but miraculously survived. He thought that he was saved to change children’s life, so Kimmie made a child rights advocacy group.

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