Black Kettle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
-- Black Kettle

#Peace #Home #Sleep
Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.
-- Black Kettle

#Horse #Believe #Native American
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
-- Black Kettle

#War #Dark #Clouds
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
-- Black Kettle

#Giving #Soldier #Enemy
Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.
-- Black Kettle

#Together #Done #Making Peace
But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
-- Black Kettle

#Moving #People #Want
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
-- Black Kettle

#Friendship #Troops #Glad

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

Black Kettle famous quotes

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