Tecumseh Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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 sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Native American

• When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.

  Tecumseh

  Jesus, Son, Earth

• My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

  Tecumseh

  Mother, Father, Earth

• 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 them all for the use of his children?

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Sea

  Speech to William Henry Harrison, Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 14 Aug. 1810

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