"Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work."
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"I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.“
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"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people."
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"We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end."
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"I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed."
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"I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition."
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"I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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