"The white man draws a circle around himself and calls it a fence. We draw a circle around ourselves and call it a nation."

"You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee."

"The white men are coming like a wave. They cover the land. They are like grasshoppers. They eat everything."

"My heart is red and sweet, and I know it is sweet, because whatever passes near me puts out its tongue to me."

"The life my people want is a life of freedom."