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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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Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

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My time in America as a student was incredibly liberating. It was also troubling. It made me think about what the nuns in Kenya had told us. My previous education had been Victorian. I had been practically living the life of a nun, even though I hadn't taken holy orders.

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Born: April 1, 1940
Died: September 25, 2011 (aged 71)
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