QUOTES
DIVERSITY
It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their
face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other
through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively
begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have
to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.
EDUCATION
“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.”
INDIGENOUS
"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves."
"One
of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift,
is to not ever let anybody else define me."
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 belive 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.
LEADERSHIP
“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.”
“America
would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.”
PERSEVERENCE
“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”
TOLERANCE
“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.”
WOMEN
“Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they
might grow up and become chief.”
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“We
must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.”
“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.”
