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"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."
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"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
"It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point."
"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."
"Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others."
"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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"There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history."
"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."
"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."
"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."
"Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief."
"I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future."
"Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward."
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