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Wilma Mankiller

"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."

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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."

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"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."

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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

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"Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others."

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"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."

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"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

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"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."

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"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."

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"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."

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"We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done."
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"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."
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"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves."
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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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"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."
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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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"Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward."
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"America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking."
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"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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"Growth is a painful process."
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