As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.