Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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!’
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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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 a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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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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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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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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 the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.
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