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The trumpet fanfare rang out loudly on December 10, 2004, in the Oslo City Hall. Guests in the crowded chamber stood to applaud the procession of dignitaries as they walked to the front of the room. Ole Danbolt Mjøs, longtime chair of the Nobel Committee, approached the podium.
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Notes
- 1.
This quote and the quote in the preceding paragraph are from the press release of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcing the awarding of the 2004 Peace Prize to Maathai; see: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/press.html.
- 2.
Wangari Maathai, The Challenge for Africa (New York: Anchor Books, 2009), 21.
- 3.
Wangari Maathai, Nobel lecture, 2004, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/maathai-lecture.html.
- 4.
Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience (New York: Lantern Books, 1985), xiii.
- 5.
Wangari Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir (New York: Anchor Books, 2007), 4.
- 6.
Wangari Maathai, Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World (New York: Doubleday, 2010), 78.
- 7.
Maathai, Unbowed, 4.
- 8.
Ibid., 8–9.
- 9.
Ibid., 11.
- 10.
Ibid., 13.
- 11.
Ibid., 16.
- 12.
Ibid., 44.
- 13.
Ibid., 38.
- 14.
Ibid., 39.
- 15.
Ibid., 41.
- 16.
Ibid., 72.
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
John F. Kennedy, quoted in “JFK and the Student Airlift” (undated webpage), John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-and-the-Student-Airlift.aspx.
- 19.
Maathai, Unbowed, 74.
- 20.
Ibid., 74.
- 21.
Ibid., 87.
- 22.
Ibid., 92.
- 23.
Ibid., 95.
- 24.
Ibid., 101.
- 25.
Ibid., 133.
- 26.
Priscilla Sears, “Wangari Maathai: ‘You Strike the Woman …,’” originally appearing in Making It Happen (Context Institute, spring 1991), available at: http://www.context.org/icilib/ic28/sears/.
- 27.
Maathai, Unbowed, 140.
- 28.
Ibid., 151.
- 29.
Ibid., 158.
- 30.
Mary Jo Breton, Women Pioneers for the Environment (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998), 17.
- 31.
Maathai, Nobel lecture.
- 32.
Maathai, The Challenge for Africa, 244.
- 33.
Maathai, Replenishing the Earth, 25.
- 34.
Maathai, Unbowed, 124–25.
- 35.
Ibid., 125.
- 36.
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World (New York: Crown Publishers, 2000), 40.
- 37.
Maathai, Unbowed, 138.
- 38.
Maathai, The Green Belt Movement, ch. 2.
- 39.
Ibid., 22.
- 40.
Ibid., 27.
- 41.
Maathai, quoted in Cuomo, 40.
- 42.
Maathai, The Green Belt Movement, 33.
- 43.
Ibid., ch. 3.
- 44.
Maathai, Unbowed, 163.
- 45.
Ibid., 168.
- 46.
Ibid., 175.
- 47.
Data about the program are drawn from the annual reports of the Green Belt Movement; see: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/sites/greenbeltmovement.org/files/2012%20Annual%20Report.pdf.
- 48.
Maathai, Nobel lecture.
- 49.
Maathai, quoted in Sears.
- 50.
Maathai, Unbowed, 191.
- 51.
Ibid., 196.
- 52.
Ibid., 196.
- 53.
Ibid., 197.
- 54.
Maathai, quoted in Cuomo, 42–43.
- 55.
Maathai, Unbowed, 203.
- 56.
Maathai, The Challenge for Africa, 56–57.
- 57.
Ibid., 167.
- 58.
Ibid., 169.
- 59.
Maathai, Unbowed, 207.
- 60.
Ibid., 215.
- 61.
Ibid., 265.
- 62.
Ibid., 286.
- 63.
Maathai, quoted in: Nicola Graydon, “From Tiny Seeds…,”Ecologist 35, no. 2 (2005): 36–39.
- 64.
The Green Belt Movement provides a comprehensive list of Maathai’s honors and awards; see: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai/biography.
- 65.
Maathai, The Green Belt Movement, 128.
- 66.
John Vidal, “Wangari Maathai, the Woman I Knew,” Guardian, September 26, 2011.
- 67.
Maathai, The Challenge for Africa, 20.
- 68.
Ibid., 230.
- 69.
Vidal, “Wangari Maathai, the Woman I Knew.”
- 70.
Maathai, Replenishing the Earth, 191.
- 71.
Jeffrey Gettleman, “Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71,” New York Times, September 27, 2011.
- 72.
Anita Price Davis and Marla J. Selvidge, Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006), 198.
- 73.
Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, Planting Hope: Wangari Maathai & the Green Belt Movement, video, Marlboro Productions, Marlboro, VT, 2009.
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