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Zitat des Tages von Chief Seattle:

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

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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.

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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

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Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

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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.

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Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

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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.

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