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  • 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.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • 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 (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • 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.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

    Life   Change   Death  
  • And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

  • Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  • Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  • Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

  • 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.

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

  • Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

    Love   Life   Peace  
  • Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

    Quoted in Herbert J. Spinden, The Nez Perce Indians (1908)
  • Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

    "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.
  • Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

    Life   Lonely   Nature  
  • And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

  • Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

  • Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

    Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press
  • May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

  • He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

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