Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEHThe white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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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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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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