Logo
Quote by Wangari Maathai
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that

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

Other quotes by Wangari Maathai

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

Category:
positive
Author
Wangari Maathai
Read Quote

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

Category:
Fear
Author
Wangari Maathai
Read Quote

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. – Wangari Maathai

Category:
Peace
Author
Wangari Maathai
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Education
category

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. – Ernest Renan

Category:
Education

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child. – Debra Messing

Category:
Education

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. – Taylor Caldwell

Category:
Education

Im on Governor Gray Davis California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. – Sally Kirkland

Category:
Education

Random Quotes

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay – by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes. – Angela Merkel

Category:
Sports

I dont think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family. – Reba McEntire

Category:
Family

My eleven-year-old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. – Bill Cosby

Category:
Women

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Generosity