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 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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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 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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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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Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
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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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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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