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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
~ Wangari Maathai
Also
Am
Environment
Governance
I Am
Improve
Make
Only
Protect
Sure
Working
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
~ Wangari Maathai
Choice
Close
Forests
Jobs
Know
Lose
Make
Need
Pain
People
Water
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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.
~ Wangari Maathai
Almost
Between
Conflict
Connection
Decades
Democracy
Environment
Few
Human
May
Obvious
Peace
Relationship
Resources
Rights
See
Seem
Today
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
~ Wangari Maathai
Africa
Any
Difference
Ideas
Important
Initiatives
Make
Make A Difference
New
New Ideas
Nurture
Which
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
~ Wangari Maathai
Acceptable
African
Ashamed
Doing
Easy
Educated
Elitist
Feeling
Following
Good
Highly
Innocent
Me
Men
People
Persecute
Project
Show
Things
Tradition
Trying
Ways
Were
Who
Without
Woman
Women
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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
Accept
African
Aspects
Culture
Good
Our
Ourselves
Positive
Some
Us
Would
Would-Be
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
~ Wangari Maathai
Country
Death
Extinction
Facing
Forests
Life
Life And Death
Man-Made
Matter
Problem
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
~ Wangari Maathai
Citizens
Difference
Little
Little Thing
Little Things
Make
Planting
Thing
Things
Trees
Will
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Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
~ Wangari Maathai
AIDS
Because
Been
Came
Cannot
Curse
Doubt
God
Living
Monkeys
Others
Say
Some
Time
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
~ Wangari Maathai
Always
Beautiful
Celebrate
Flame
Flower
Flowers
Got
Indigenous
Like
Plant
Red
Things
Tree
Want
Way
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
~ Wangari Maathai
Angry
Because
Country
Culture
Cut
Cutting
Everyone
General
Makes
Me
No-One
Planting
Trees
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
~ Wangari Maathai
Blaming
Destroying
Environment
Fond
Governments
Including
Often
Poor
Powerful
Responsible
Very
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We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
~ Wangari Maathai
Destroy
Development
Does
Environment
Need
Our
Promote
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
~ Wangari Maathai
Benefits
Bequeath
Children
Conserve
Environment
Generation
Next
Next Generation
Our
Ourselves
Owe
Sustainable
World
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
~ Wangari Maathai
Area
Beyond
Come
Deal
Did
First
Innocent
Issues
Meet
Needs
Nothing
Planting
Really
Response
Rural
Rural Areas
See
Started
Trees
Women
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
~ Wangari Maathai
Competition
Conflicts
Degraded
Distribution
Global
Going
Local
Management
Often
Over
Regional
Resources
Scarce
Think
Those
Valuable
Very
Whether
You
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
~ Wangari Maathai
Back
Cannot
Children
Responsible
See
Sit
Starve
Them
Time
Waste
Waste Time
Women
Women Are
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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
Able
Adequately
Africa
Blame
Cannot
Economy
Education
Fact
Gain
Give
Invested
Knowledge
Mismanagement
Need
Order
Our
Our People
People
Resources
Skills
Technology
Use
Wealth
You
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
~ Wavy Gravy
Again
Also
Education
Ever
Greatest
Had
Like
Looks
Need
Nixon
Political
Richard
Richard Nixon
Them
Thought
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
~ Wavy Gravy
Always
Dare
Grin
Say
Struggle
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