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.
TECUMSEHGive thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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 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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The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
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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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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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