When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH- When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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 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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
TECUMSEHFrom my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEHPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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.
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.
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TECUMSEHMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEHThe Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEHThe white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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