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!’
TECUMSEHSo live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
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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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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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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 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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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