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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost a...

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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who wal...

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Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what ...

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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to...

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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is ...

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The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the ...

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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately i...

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A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to ...

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Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...

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Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you figh...

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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya,...

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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way ...

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

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No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look f...

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Wangari Maathai

Political Activist

Born: 1940-04-01

Died: 2011-09-25

Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan environmental and social activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2004.More