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Wilma Mankiller

"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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"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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"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."

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"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

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"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."

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"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."

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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."

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"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."

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"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."

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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."

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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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"Growth is a painful process."
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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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"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."
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