Her husband told a court she was too strong to be a wife. The judge agreed and stripped Wangari Maathai of everything, her family, her job, her home.
She looked around and noticed women walking miles every single day just to collect firewood. So she handed them seeds instead. The government responded with arrests, beatings, and a padlocked office door.
30,000 women trained. 51 million trees planted across Kenya. Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. They handed her destruction. She turned it into an entire forest.
a experiência feminina de passar por uma situação terrível sem perceber a gravidade no momento. e, meses depois, no meio de uma semana qualquer, seu cérebro decide conectar a última pe��a do quebra-cabeça e você finalmente entende o quão errado aquilo realmente foi.
@girl0tter@twinkletweetu You don’t even really know anything at 22 like ppl want music to have real emotion and feeling again you gotta let a bitch who lived a bit sing it
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur