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Tribal Chief Inspirational Quotes (296)

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Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
Wilma Mankiller
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The Indian race is waiting and praying.
Chief Joseph
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I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
Wilma Mankiller
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
Sitting Bull
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My friends, your people have both intellect and heart you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
Spotted Tail
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We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
Chief Seattle
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh
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I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
Chief Joseph
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When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
Chief Seattle
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If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
Standing Bear
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We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
Chief Seattle
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph
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The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities.
Tomochichi
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
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This nation is like a spring freshet it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Sitting Bull
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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
Chief Joseph
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Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women
Genghis Khan
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I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo
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You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls.
Ten Bears
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Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.
Genghis Khan
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We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.
Canasatego
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An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
Genghis Khan
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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
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Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.
Chief Seattle
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