Colonialism Quote by Wangari Maathai

“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 from that by now.” quote by Wangari Maathai — Download Open image

“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 from that by now.”

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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 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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