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Susette La Flesche Quotes

1886–1947 United States

Susette La Flesche, later Susette LaFlesche Tibbles and also called Inshata Theumba, meaning "Bright Eyes" (1854–1903), was a well-known Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter, and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska. La Flesche was a progressive and a spokesperson for Native American rights.

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Also known as: Susette LaFlesche Tibbles

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A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

The people who were once owners of this soil ask you for their liberty, and law is liberty.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

The tribe has been robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of property, and the government shows no disposition to return what belongs to them.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

So many seem to think that Indians fight because they delight in being savage and are bloodthirsty.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

It seems to us sometimes that the government treats us with less consideration than it does even the dogs.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

For wrongs like these we have no redress whatever. We have no protection from the law.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

We are human beings; God made us as well as you

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

Peaceful revolutions are slow but sure. It takes time to leaven a great unwieldy mass like this nation with the leavening ideas of justice and liberty, but the evolution is all the more certain in its results because it is so slow.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susette La Flesche (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.