Monday, 27 November 2006

• a flower does not discriminate in revealing its beauty

  That's what we should do.
  We should be a flower to every person we touch.
  To every community we should bloom,
  because then we shall surely enjoy life
  and feel good about the fact we came
  and we touched
  and we did indeed bloom.
  
  -Wangari Maathai, in concluding her address in which she spoke out against injustice
  a Kenyan
  a Pitt graduate student 40 years ago
  the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her struggle for human rights and conservation in Kenya
  
  taken from 11/26/06 "Born to a better day" by Michael Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer
  
  

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