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Africa Quotes by Wangari Maathai
- Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff…
- I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the…
- You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people…
- Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life -…
- It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
- The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in…
More Africa Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy… — Mary McLeod Bethune
- In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko
- Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono