Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
TECUMSEHBrothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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The 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.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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