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.
TECUMSEHNo tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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