Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEHWill 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!’
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Prepare 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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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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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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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