Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEHShow respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Love 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.
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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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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 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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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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