All Chief Joseph Quotes
- Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they… All
- All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… All
- Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No,… Answers
- We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with… Church
- The eye tells what the tongue would hide. Eye
- If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them all the same… Act
- We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow… Belief
- We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! Fighting
- Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of… Alike
- The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. All
- We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will give every man… According
- I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken… All
- Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. .… Blanket
- Good words do not last long unless they amount to something. Action
- I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country. Country
- My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man. Father
- I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me. Child
- I know that my race must change. Change
- If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike.… Alike
- I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must… Another Kind
- We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men. Alike
- I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one… Asked
- The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us. Disturbed
- I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a… All
- We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Church
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