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Chief Joseph Quotes

Good words will not give me back my children.
Chief Joseph

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Type:
Leader Quotes
Year of Birth:
1840
Date of Death:
September 21, 1904
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Select Chief Joseph Quotations:
I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
Chief Joseph

I want the white people to understand my people.
Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.
Chief Joseph

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph

We ask to be recognized as men.
Chief Joseph

Words do not pay for my dead people.
Chief Joseph


Quote Keywords:

Back, Children, Give, Good, Will, Words
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A man who would not love...
All men were made by the...
An Indian respects a brave man...
For a short time we lived...
From where the sun now stands...
General Howard informed me, in a...
Good words will not give me...
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington...
Hear me, my chiefs! I am...
I am tired of talk that...
I believe much trouble would be...
I cannot tell how much my...
I did not want my people...
I have heard talk and talk...
I hope that no more groans...
I know that my race must change.
I labored hard to avoid trouble...
I only ask of the government...
I pressed my father's hand and...
I said in my heart that...
I saw clearly that war was...
I saw that the war could...
I want the white people to...
I will obey every law, or...
I will speak with a straight tongue.
I would give up everything rather...
I would have given my own...
If the white man wants to...
It does not require many words...
It makes my heart sick when...
It required a strong heart to...
Lawyer acted without authority from our...
Let me be a free man...
My father was the first to...
My father... had sharper eyes than...
My people were divided about surrendering.
Our people could not talk with...
Some of you think an Indian...
The earth is the mother of...
The first white men of your...
The Indian race are waiting and praying.
The white men told lies for...
Treat all men alike. Give them...
War can be avoided, and it...
We ask to be recognized as men.
We damaged all the big guns...
We did not know there were...
We gathered all the stock we...
We gave up some of our...
We had a great many horses...
We had good white friends who...
We soon found that the white...
When an Indian fights, he only...
When my young men began the...
Words do not pay for my...
You might as well expect rivers...

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