Wangari Maathai Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• 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

  Future, Rights, Vision

• 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

  Thinking, Competition, Management

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Conflict, Educate

• When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.

  Wangari Maathai

  Justice, Effort, Conflict

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.

  Wangari Maathai

  Daughter, War, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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