Chief Dan George Quotes

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• May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears.
• If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
• Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.
• We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it.…
• First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land
• Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it…
• Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must…
• The heart never knows the colour of the skin
• The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.
• If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?
• My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and…
• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the…
• Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.
• The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of…
• One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to…
• If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you…

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