Top 25 Quotes by Chief Seattle of 61 - Page 3

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

Chief Seattle

God, Brother, Men

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

Chief Seattle

Brother, Decay, May

The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

Chief Seattle

Men, Air, White Man

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Native American, People, Dark Woods

My words are like the stars that never change.

Chief Seattle

Stars, Never Change

Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.12, University of Washington Press

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

Chief Seattle

Loneliness, Men, Gone

Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

Chief Seattle

Beautiful, Death, Country

Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.

Chief Seattle

God, Strong, Father