When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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 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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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