I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
Chief Joseph
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
We ask to be recognized as men.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.
When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live... →
Joseph Joubert
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce