Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.Wangari Maathai
You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehabilitation and empowering people to do things for themselves. What is done for the people without involving them cannot be sustained.
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We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
Wangari Maathai
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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If you want the future generations to live in peace, we must invest in the protection of the environment and we must train especially our young people so that they don't think, for example, the whole world is like Japan.
Wangari Maathai
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
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