Wangari Maathai
Born
in Tetu division, Nyeri District, Kenya, Kenya
April 01, 1940
Died
September 25, 2011
Genre
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“Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.”
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“Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come”
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“The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.”
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