Great Spirit Quotes
58 Great Spirit quotes by 28 unique authors
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the…
— Sitting Bull
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...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers...
— Zitkala-Sa
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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…
— Chief Joseph
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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…
— Tecumseh
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Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that…
— Ten Bears
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its…
— Black Elk
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
— Mark Twain
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Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian…
— Sherman Alexie
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the…
— Black Elk
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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…
— Tecumseh
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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…
— Chief Joseph
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The idea of full dress for preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation…
— Wooden Leg
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A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great…
— Zitkala-Sa
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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…
— Tecumseh
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The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
— Chief Joseph
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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…
— Chief Joseph
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but…
— Sitting Bull
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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…
— Tecumseh
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say...
— Sitting Bull
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
— Sitting Bull
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
— Sitting Bull
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When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me…
— Boris Spassky
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize…
— Helen Keller
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At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
— Black Elk
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