Heroes for a Better World

Rafaela vos Obeso
(c. 1947-)

Colombian Sociologist, Women's Rights Advocate
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005

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birthplace:
Barranquilla, Colombia

QUOTES

“We women have presented an alternative proposal to society and to humanity. It is about the construction of a world where tolerance is a life style; Where daily social and political divergences and its resolutions would be seen as part of humanity; Where equality would be possible in all its dimensions; Where knowledge and access to education and other social possessions would not be the privilege of a few; A world where violence in all its forms would be past history, where fear will not overwhelm us and where we shall be able to enjoy the goodness of existence.”

Our language does not use arms to gain power: Its power lies in its words

“We women have the same capacity and potential for power to allow us to be participants in our own destiny.”

Several different kind of violence have been exercised against women, among them physical, psychological, moral, verbal, violence inside the family, conjugal and sexual”

“Re-education is a life option not only for men, but also for women. The problems related to gender are the concern of both involved parties. They are the problems of the entire society. To talk about feminism causes terror, especially to the opposite sex. Both the one who abuses and the one who allows the abuse must be educated in a new direction. The idea of he bits me because he loves me is more common than we believe for a big number of Latin American women. Their mothers and grand mothers have taught them that this was so, generating a chain of several centuries of uninterrupted abuse.”

 


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