Dolly Akers

Quotes

• “I am a very necessary evil. I try to stay in the background, but every now and then I have to come out and kick some body in the shins.”
• “Why should Indian people be forced to live under a law made some 80 years ago? That is the year in which the Indian Commissioner referred to Indians as ‘wild beasts!”
• “There can be no real solution of the so-called ‘Indian problem’ unless the Interior Department embraces the principle of self-determination of Indian people by actual practice”
• “The archaic protective rules and laws merely tend to hamper the Indian people from attaining their final goal of self-sufficiency, which is the goal of Congress for the Interior Department to foster.”
• “I am a very necessary evil. I try to stay in the background, but every now and then I have to come out and kick somebody in the shins.”

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