The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEHA single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Sell 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?
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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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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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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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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, 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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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