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.
TECUMSEHWill 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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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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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Where 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.
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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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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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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 you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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