I am forever grateful that Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan woman who founded the Green Belt Movement, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004; not only because she was so deserving but because it led me to become aware of her extraordinary life. She died yesterday at 71, but her legacy does and will live on.
“Every experience has a lesson. Every situation has a silver lining. Each person needs to raise their consciousness to a certain level so that they will not give up or succumb. If your consciousness is at such a level, you are willing to do what you believe is the right thing – popular opinion notwithstanding.”
-from her memoir, Unbowed