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But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for. - Wilma Mankiller Quotes

But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for.

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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. - Wilma Mankiller Quotes

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

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Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. - Wilma Mankiller Quotes

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

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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. - Wilma Mankiller Quotes

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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My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to. - Wilma Mankiller Quotes

My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

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Growth is a painful process. - Wilma Mankiller Quotes

Growth is a painful process.

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We've had daunting problems in many critical areas, but I believe in the old Cherokee injunction to

We've had daunting problems in many critical areas, but I believe in the old Cherokee injunction to "be of a good mind." Today it's called positive thinking.

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

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

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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 believe 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 Quotes

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 believe 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.

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She likened her job to

She likened her job to "running a small country, a medium corporation, and being a social worker."

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