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Wilma Mankiller has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever…
• I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust…
• It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through…
• We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
• Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
• America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
• Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with…
• The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully…
• If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is…
• Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their…
• Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
• My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages,…

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