58 Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

If we're ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

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.