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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 relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
— Chief Seattle
Tags: men, black, angry, women

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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
— Chief Seattle
Tags: like, waves, regret, sea, nature
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
— Chief Seattle
Tags: whatever, he, man, life
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
— Chief Seattle
Tags: seasons, whatever, he, sun, great
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
— Chief Seattle
Tags: few, plain, trees, people
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
— Chief Seattle
Tags: people, man, god, love
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