The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEHAlways give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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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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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.
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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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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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When 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.
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