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.
TECUMSEHFrom my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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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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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, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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