Chief Joseph Quotes About Equal Rights

• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Teacher   Brother  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  2065

• The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Native American   Rights  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  1795

• All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Running   Brother  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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