"I didn't have the faith in myself to speak up, and what caused me to have the faith in myself to speak up was that my desire to do something and contribute was stronger than my own fear."
Wilma Mankiller
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“Being dedicated to someone else or to a group of people will make you your best self.”Jessica Jackley microfinance pioneer
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Wilma spoke at this historic western-Virginia college in 1993, encouraging its all-female student body to find their voices + use them in the service of others.
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This Cherokee Nation Historic Courthouse rests very near Wilma's ancestral lands in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Caleb Long | CC BY-SA