People line up to vote in the presidential runoff election in Monrovia, Liberia, November 2005. In her inauguration speech, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said, “[W]e applaud the resilience of our people who, weighed down and dehumanized by poverty and rendered immobile by the shackles of fourteen years of civil war, went courageously to the polls, to vote.” (© AP Images)