No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEHTrouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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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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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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