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Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law.
Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.
They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all
people, and all people should have equal rights upon
it.......
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop,
free to work, free to trade....where I choose my own
teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers,
free to think and talk and act for myself,
and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
Chief Joseph
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