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.
TECUMSEHAbuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Sell 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?
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Will 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!’
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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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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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