Geronimo

"The injustices against my people will be remembered."

"We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and knows the hearts of all men."

"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes."

"The Apache has great endurance in the matter of heat. In fact, before the Spirit Chief created man, He made the Apache tough."

"My people have never first drawn a knife or shed blood. Let the white men prove they have kept this promise."

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us."

"It is sad that we have passed away like a roaring wind, and left nothing behind us but a desert."

"The soldiers never explained to the Government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians."

"We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the Government then."

"Good friends, relatives, and followers, as you know, I am soon to pass away from this world."

"I have been driven off every good land I ever lived on by the insatiable greed of the white race."

"Treachery is often successful, which is why the dishonest often prosper."

"When I was young, I walked all over this country, east and west, and found no other people as good as my people."

"The Apaches have never been vanquished; we have only been dispersed."

"It is impossible for a man to love his country and not to love his countrymen."

"Bury my heart at Wounded Knee—though this land was never mine, it should belong to my people."

"I was born upon the prairie where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun."

"The young Apache must learn to sleep lightly, for danger comes without warning."

"In the days of my youth, I was taught that we would all have to account for our deeds to the Great Spirit."

"Many soldiers have been sent out to fight us, yet we are still here."

"A man without hope is like a bird with broken wings."

"The Apache people are like the mountains—ancient, enduring, and impossible to conquer."

"I have never been wrong in my judgment of men and their intentions."

"When you make a promise, you must keep it forever, or you are not worthy to call yourself a man."

"The white man has taken everything from us but our pride, and he cannot take that unless we let him."

"We did not steal the land; we were the land, and the land was us."

"Education without wisdom is like a weapon in the hands of a fool."

"The most important skill a warrior can learn is patience."

"I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick."

"Every Apache must understand that he is responsible for his own path in life."