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.
TECUMSEHThe white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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