Chief Seattle Quotes
Top 36 wise famous quotes and sayings by Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.
We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.