Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
TECUMSEHSell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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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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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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