“ Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. Chief Seattle
“ Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and… Chief Seattle
“ Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better. Chief Seattle
“ When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will ne… Chief Seattle
“ What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. Chief Seattle
“ 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. Chief Seattle
“ The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless. Chief Seattle
“ 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 tha… Chief Seattle
