Wilma Mankiller Quotes - Page 2

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• I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Trust, Future, Reality

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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• Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

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  Tolerance, Trying, Prejudice

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• My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

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  Character, Adversity, People

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• It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.

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  People, Black, Suffering

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• America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

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  Leadership, Thinking, America

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• I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

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  Acceptance, Want, Remembered

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• We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Thanksgiving, America, People

  "In Giving Thanks, Some Remember the Indians" by Georgia Dullea, www.nytimes.com. November 24, 1988.

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• Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Women

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• Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

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  Teamwork, Moving, Adversity

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• It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

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  Moving, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.

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  Real, Men, Thinking

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• One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Grateful, Thinking, Parent

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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• We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.

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  Moving, Adversity, Government

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• A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

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  Girl, Careers, People

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