"Words do not pay for my dead people." — Chief Joseph
"Words do not pay for my dead people."
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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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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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