I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.

All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Big name often stands on small legs.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.