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Women Quotes by Wangari Maathai
- 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…
- The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they,…
- 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…
- It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not…
- Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
- 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,…
- When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet…
- 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…
- We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so…
- We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
- 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…
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