Good words will not give me back my children.

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

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.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.