War Quotes by Wangari Maathai

9 War quotes by Wangari Maathai

Maathai’s eco‑focused view on war shines in nine brief lines, giving you a quick sense of her activist voice. Perfect for a concise, green‑aligned encounter.

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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

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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…

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For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and…

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As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason…

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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war.…

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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see…

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It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,…

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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global -…

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When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start…

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We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

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What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when…

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As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more…

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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…

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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

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I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

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I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not.…

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I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that…

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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…

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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…

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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to…

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Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown…

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Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags.…

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I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As…

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