Wangari Maathai Quotes

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

The only real nation is humanity

The peoples of the earth are one family.

Above all nations is humanity.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

… my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

Anyone who goes to space tried to look at his own country first, but soon it appears that there is no boundary between the countries and the entire world is one family where our destinies are integrated.

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

I'd like to see the whole world.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

I think the world should be one community.

Our true nationality is mankind.

I'm 'of the world'.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for humanity? Who speaks for earth?