Sarah Winnemucca quotes
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“Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.”
-- Sarah WinnemuccaSource : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.261, U of Nebraska Press
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“If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.”
-- Sarah WinnemuccaSource : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.53, University of Nevada Press
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“I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.”
-- Sarah WinnemuccaSource : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press
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“Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.”
-- Sarah WinnemuccaSource : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.51, University of Nevada Press
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“When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrow’s fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts.”
-- Sarah WinnemuccaSource : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.6, University of Nevada Press
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“The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.”
-- Sarah Winnemucca
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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