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.


On her opposition to the construction of a skyscraper in Nairobi, Kenya, as quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)

Wangari Maathai Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...