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Chief Joseph: 'I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.'

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Chief Joseph: 'My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.'

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

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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.'

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Chief Joseph: 'I will speak with a straight tongue.'

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Chief Joseph: 'I know that my race must change.'

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Chief Joseph: 'For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.'

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Chief Joseph: 'I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.'

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Chief Joseph: 'An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.'

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Chief Joseph: 'All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.'

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Chief Joseph: 'Words do not pay for my dead people.'

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Chief Joseph: 'If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.'

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Chief Joseph: 'From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.'

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Chief Joseph: 'I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.'

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Chief Joseph: 'A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.'

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Chief Joseph: 'Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.'

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Chief Joseph: 'Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.'

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Chief Joseph: 'You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.'

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

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Chief Joseph: 'It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.'

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