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Susan La Flesche Picotte Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“[T]his condition of being treated as children we want to have nothing to do with…the majority of the Omahas are as competent as the same number of white people.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte
Tagged: racism, Native Americans, White People, Omaha Nation
“I know that I shall be unpopular for a while with my people, because they will misconstrue my efforts, but this is nothing, just so I can help them for their own good.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte
Tagged: Temperance
“Intemperance increased…men, women, and children drank; men and women died from alcoholism, and little children were seen reeling on the streets of the town; drunken brawls in which men were killed occurred, and no person's life was considered safe.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte
Tagged: Alcoholism, Intemperance, Drunken Brawls
“From the outset the work of an Indian girl is plain before her.…We who are educated have to be pioneers of Indian civilization. We have to prepare our people to live in the white man's way, to use the white man's books, and to use his laws if you will only give them to us…the shores of success can only be reached by crossing the bridge of faith.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte
Tagged: Native Americans, White Man, White People, Faith
“We who are educated have to be pioneers of Indian civilization. The white people have reached a high standard of civilization, but how many years has it taken them? We are only beginning; so do not try to put us down, but help us to climb higher. Give us a chance.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte, The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, the First Native American to Earn a Medical Degree
Tagged: Native Americans, White People, civilization
“My office hours are any and all hours of the day and night.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte, Susan La Flesche Picotte- Wikipedia
Tagged: Office Hours
“I’m not accomplishing miracles, but I’m beginning to see some of the results of better hygiene and health habits. And we’re losing fewer babies and fewer cases to infection.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte, Susan La Flesche Picotte- Wikipedia
Tagged: Miracles, hygiene, Health, Obstetrics
“It was only an Indian and it did not matter. The doctor preferred hunting for prairie chickens rather than visiting poor, suffering humanity.”
— Susan La Flesche Picotte, Susan La Flesche Picotte- Wikipedia
Tagged: Indian, native american, racism
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