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Famous Chief Joseph Quotes
“Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.”
“You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.”
“We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.”
“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”
“I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.”
“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”
“A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.”
“I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.”
“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.”
“The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.”
“My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.”
“I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.”