Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEHLove 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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 you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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