Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
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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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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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