Chief Seattle Quotes

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

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The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

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Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

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