When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHLove your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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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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Show 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.
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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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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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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.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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