"I have been told that you have come to buy my land. I do not wish to sell my land. I have never sold my land. I have no land to sell."

"The life my people want is a life of freedom."

"You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee."

"The white men are coming like a wave. They cover the land. They are like grasshoppers. They eat everything."

"The white man comes to us with a smile on his face and a knife behind his back."