"I have heard talk and talk and talk but little or nothing is done; good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Words do not pay for my dead people... they do not pay for my country... they do not protect my Father's grave.
Good words do not give me back my Children. Good words will not give my people good health or stop them from dying.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my Heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises...
You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases...
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk and think and act for myself - and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
