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Wangari Maathai's Profile

Brief about Wangari Maathai: By info that we know Wangari Maathai was born at 1940-04-01. And also Wangari Maathai is Kenyan Activist.

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

Tags: Conflict, Educate

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

Tags: Humanity, Peace, War

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 their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

Tags: Innocent, Started, Women

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 the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

Tags: Education, Knowledge, Technology

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 as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Tags: Fear, Strength, Women

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Tags: Bad, Become, Corruption

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.

Tags: Care, God, Why

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

Tags: Environmental, Peace, Today

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Tags: Done, Until, Water

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Tags: Difference, Planting, Trees

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Tags: Choice, Lose, Pain

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.

Tags: Good, Men, Women

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

Tags: Often, Poor, Powerful

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Tags: Children, Next, Ourselves

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

Tags: Children, Time, Women

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

Tags: Africa, Difference, Ideas

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

Tags: Accept, Good, Positive

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

Tags: God, Life, Spirit

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Tags: Destroy, Promote

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, who provide food for their families.

Tags: Food, Looking, Women
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