Geronimo Quotes

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• We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and…
• The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations…
• It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last…
• We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes…
• I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for…
• I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.
• I was born where there were no enclosures.
• While living I want to live well.
• Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
• Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other…
• Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to…
• I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are…
• The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
• I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and…
• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people…
• I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born…
• I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

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