The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Education of course is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
You have to know yourself, and that once you know yourself, then you cannot be bound by - because sometimes we are… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Now when Nile perch was introduced [into Lake Victoria], I don't think enough research was done; maybe it was done, maybe it… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The issue of climate change, it really does bring home the fact that we are on one planet, and that some of… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society]. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue logging the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot say we don't want to hear anything about GMOs, because these are advances in science. But I think its… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
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