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Wangari Maathai Quotes

Kenyan - Activist | April 1, 1940 -

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Wangari Maathai

I Am Environment Protect Improve Am

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Wangari Maathai

Ideas Make A Difference New Important

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Wangari Maathai

Women Children Time Back Waste Time

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 following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

Wangari Maathai

Good Women Men Woman People Me

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Wangari Maathai

Positive Good Culture Accept Us Our

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Wangari Maathai

Life God Spirit Everything Planet

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

Wangari Maathai

People Conflict You Own Educate How

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai

Life Death Problem Life And Death

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Wangari Maathai

God Me Think Care Problem Know

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 was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

Wangari Maathai

God Time Doubt Say Living Others

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Wangari Maathai

Environment Powerful Poor Responsible

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

Wangari Maathai

Me Problems Trees Problem Look Move

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