Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Winnemucca

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was a Northern Paiute author, activist(lecturer) and educator. Her maiden name is Winnemucca.

Activist | 1844 - October 17, 1891

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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 Winnemucca

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

Sarah Winnemucca

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

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 Winnemucca

Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.

Sarah Winnemucca

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 Winnemucca

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Winnemucca

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