Wangari Maathai Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Vacuums, Lasts

• The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.

  Wangari Maathai

  Loss, Effort, Environmental

• I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

• We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.

  Wangari Maathai

  Creating, People, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Drug, Important

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

  Wangari Maathai

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

• You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

  Wangari Maathai

  Vacuums, Poverty, Environment

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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