"I did not want my people killed. I…" — Chief Joseph
"I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed."
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Chief Joseph
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88 Quotes by Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph has 88 quotes on this site.
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Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my…
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All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights…
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Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them."…
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We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn…
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The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
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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.…
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We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones…
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We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We…
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The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is…
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We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter…
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good…
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More Bloodshed Quotes
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
— Luis Bunuel
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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to…
— Conan O'Brien
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable…
— Stuart Chase
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
— Menachem Begin
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Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial…
— Anwar Sadat
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still…
— Lidia Yusupova
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