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
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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