When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHWhere 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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.”
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
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