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?
TECUMSEHSing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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.”
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