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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
"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."
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
"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."
"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
"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."
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
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