Tecumseh Quotes

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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…
• The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right…
• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the…
• 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…
• 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…
• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
• No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
• 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…
• Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
• So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view,…
• 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…
• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
• Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
• Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to…
• Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the…
• 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…
• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
• A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

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