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"15 Wangari Maathai Quotes & Sayings

      Kenyan     /     View profile
Born: 1 April 1940. Died: 25 September 2011 | Activist |

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

Opportunities Moments Most Difficult
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

African Fear General Know
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Benefits Bequeath Children Conserve
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Also Am Environment Governance
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Africa Any Difference Ideas
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Back Cannot Children Responsible
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We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
Destroy Development Does Environment
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Citizens Difference Little Make
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Blaming Destroying Environment Fond
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Angry Because Country Culture
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Away Colonialism Describe Legacy
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Everything God Life Planet
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Dig Done Hole Just
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

Conflict Educate How Own
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Because Degradation Environmental Families
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Wangari Maathai Quotes & Sayings