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.
TECUMSEHShow respect to all people, but grovel to none.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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 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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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