Wangari Maathai Quotes
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance. 
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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
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