“Taking action is a choice.
It is a choice:
– whether or not we stop violence against women,
– whether or not we create a positive masculinity which promotes gender equality, in times of peace and in times of war.
It is a choice:
– whether or not to support a woman,
– whether or not to protect her,
– whether or not to defend her rights,
– whether or not to fight on her side in countries ravaged by conflict.
It is a choice: whether or not to build peace in the countries in conflict.
Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference.”
Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace prize lecture
© The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2018.
You can read full Nobel Prize lecture on
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2018/mukwege/55721-denis-mukwege-nobel-lecture-2/