Chief Joseph Quotes About Native American Indian Inspirational

• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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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. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Brother  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

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• It does not require many words to speak the truth.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

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• I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

  Quoted in Herbert J. Spinden, The Nez Perce Indians (1908)

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• The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Native American  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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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.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

  Speech in surrendering to General Nelson Appleton Miles, October 05, 1877.

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• Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

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  Chief Joseph

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

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  Chief Joseph

  Brother   Native American  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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