"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."

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Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

Sarah Winnemucca

#Voice Quotes #Race Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.”
“With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.”
“That's the best part. The how.”
“It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.”
“A strong foe is better than a weak friend.”
“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”
“One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.”
“I have kind of an iron stomach.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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