Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEHWhere today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
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Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
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The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
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We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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