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Wilma Mankiller's Profile

Brief about Wilma Mankiller: By info that we know Wilma Mankiller was born at 1945-11-18. And also Wilma Mankiller is Cherokee Statesman.

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The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Tags: Give, Secret, Success

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

Tags: Adversity, Forward, Moving

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.

Tags: Career, Change, Young

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.

Tags: Children, Education, Future

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

Tags: Future, Past, Society

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

Tags: Indian, Run, Woman

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

Tags: Job, Thinking, Trust

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.

Tags: Problem, Saying, Try

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

Tags: America, Place, Thinking

Growth is a painful process.

Tags: Growth, Painful, Process

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Tags: Faith, Helped, Ourselves

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

Tags: Become, Thought, Young

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.

Tags: History, Today, Understand
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