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Tribal Chief Inspirational Quotes (296)

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I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
Chief Joseph
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Trouble no one about their religion respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
Tecumseh
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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
Black Elk
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
Sitting Bull
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
Chief Joseph
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Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.
Victorio
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Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
Chief Seattle
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
Chief Seattle
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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
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
Chief Joseph
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
Black Elk
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black Elk
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A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.
Genghis Khan
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Growth is a painful process. If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.
Wilma Mankiller
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
Chief Joseph
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Chief Joseph
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Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.
Wilma Mankiller
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Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
Chief Seattle
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We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
Chief Joseph
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
Chief Joseph
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The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
Joseph Brant
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
Tecumseh
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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Black Elk
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