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. “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.”

— Wangari Maathai

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"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

"The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station."

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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.

“What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.”

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own—indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty, and wonder.

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