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Quotes from Speech — Zitkala-Ša

1876–1938 United States

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10 quotes

Use the words that come to you, that which is in the heart and mind.

Speech (1919)

We must put our thoughts into practice every day in the most complex business matter, in the most simple home duty.

Speech (1919)

Today the Indian is pressed almost to the farther sea. Does that sea symbolize his death?

Speech (1896)

To take the life of a nation during the slow march of centuries seems not a lighter crime than to crush it instantly with one fatal blow.

Speech (1896)

Shall we think or shall somebody think for us? We are on this earth to think and do the best we can according to our light.

Speech (1919)

We clasp the warm hand of friendship everywhere. From honest hearts and sincere lips we hear the hearty welcome and Godspeed.

Speech (1896)

Quick to string his bow for vengeance; ready to bury the hatchet or smoke the pipe of peace; never was he first to break a treaty or known to betray a friend with whom he had eaten salt.

Speech (1896)

The greatest gift in life is consciousness. Not positions, not the dollar, but that the Almighty Spirit gives us life and we have a rational mind with which to see all the wonders of the universe.

Speech (1919)

Poets sing of a coming federation of the world, and we applaud. Idealists dream that in this commonwealth of all humanity the divine spark in man shall be the only test of citizenship, and we think of their dream and future history.

Speech (1896)

our little ones — they are our future hope. Our children!

Speech (1919)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zitkala-Ša (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.