Quote by Wangari Maathai
African women in general need to know that its OK for them to be t

African women in general need to know that its 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. – Wangari Maathai

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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. – Wangari Maathai

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environmental
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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. – Wangari Maathai

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Education
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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

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The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

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The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. – Steve Perry

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Fear is the mother of morality. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. – J. G. Ballard

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