When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHShow respect to all people, but grovel to none.
TECUMSEHThe 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.”
TECUMSEHLove your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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!’
TECUMSEHTrouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEHSell 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?
TECUMSEHWhen the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEHI am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEHSell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
TECUMSEHI 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.
TECUMSEHThe white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
TECUMSEHThe Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEHAbuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEHWhen 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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