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From 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…
- It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in…
- Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That…
- If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and…
- 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…
- Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it…
- 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…
- Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people…
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