3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai African women in general need to know that it’s 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.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai It’s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai 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.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai 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.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
3 December 2020 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.
