Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

We can love ourselves by loving the earth.