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- We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
- We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he…
- If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the…
- Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time…
- We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
- When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle