I will fight no more...
"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead.
It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death.
I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, 1877
It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death.
I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, 1877
posted by pitfinder at 9:49 PM
5 Comments:
That is a very sad quote.
I agree this was a very sad post...
but very touching.
Havala za sve sto si do sada pisao i za sve tvoje komentare, I za sve male price koje znace puno u nasem zivotu...
Ok I had to comment this way just to make you think, and smile:)
For being a relatively young country, and for all our great achievements, we have a lot of sadness like this.
Yeah, but I don't know what it says! And Babelfish doesn't have your language.
I know that's waht made it fun!
I'll just have to send you a dictionary...
I think grief is really one of the most touching and uniting human emotions. Why is it what is lost is easier to appreciate?
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