When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHThe 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
-
-
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH -
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.
TECUMSEH -
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEH -
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.”
TECUMSEH -
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.”
TECUMSEH -
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
TECUMSEH -
The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEH -
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.
TECUMSEH -
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEH -
I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
TECUMSEH -
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.
TECUMSEH -
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEH -
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH -
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH -
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH