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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Its a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. – Wangari Maathai

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Death
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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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positive
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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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Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. – Jeffrey Sachs

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To good and true love fear is forever affixed. – Francois Rabelais

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Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because its shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not. – Sebastian Junger

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. – Clara Barton

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Its always funny until someone gets hurt. Then its just hilarious. – Bill Hicks

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I feel like in America, we dont have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education. – Alonzo Mourning

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If there is any secret to my success, I think its that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them. – Sidney Sheldon

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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patients hopes are the physicians secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins

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