"Whoever controls the education of our children controls……" — Wilma Mankiller
"Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future."
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33 Quotes by Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Mankiller has 33 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin…
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It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each…
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We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
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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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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
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Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m…
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The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that…
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If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and…
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Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear…
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
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My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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