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Wilma Mankiller

"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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"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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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

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"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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"In your winter you deny your spring."

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"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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"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."
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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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"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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"We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done."
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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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"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves."
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"Growth is a painful process."
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"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."
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"America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking."
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