Quotes from Sarah Winnemucca

The saddest day hath gleams of light The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night Some solitary star to cheer it.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

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.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

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

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.