I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
TECUMSEHThe 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.”
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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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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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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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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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.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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