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Quote by Wangari Maathai

“What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when you learn something from other people, then you keep moving onward for yourself.”

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Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan political activist and environmentalist who became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Born on April 1, 1940, and passing away on September 25, 2011, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization dedicated to environmental conservation and women's rights. more

“For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?”

People Ifs Want Needs Government Land Example Produce Rivers Agriculture Kenya Lease Delta Qatar

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Why do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.”

People Problem Used Grows Becoming Sells Solve Afar

Author:Wangari Maathai

“If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.”

People Ifs Feels Sex Risk Generations Groups Disease Behavior Response Spread Violent Peers Peer Group Violent Acts

Author:Steven James

“Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.”

World Persons Dependent

Author:Wangari Maathai