Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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