Tecumseh Quotes - Page 2

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• The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

  Tecumseh

  Land, White, People

  38 Copy quote

• I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."

  Tecumseh

  Country, Thinking, Justice

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• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Hero

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

  61 Copy quote

• The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.

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  Children, Home, Games

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• The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.

  Tecumseh

  Men, Land, Justice

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• I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

  Tecumseh

  Warrior, Son, Existence

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