“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.”
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