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We clasp the warm hand of friendship everywhere. From honest hearts and sincere lips we hear the hearty welcome and Godspeed.

— Zitkala-Ša Speech (1896)

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Use the words that come to you, that which is in the heart and mind.

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We must put our thoughts into practice every day in the most complex business matter, in the most simple home duty.

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My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand.

American Indian Stories (1921)

Today the Indian is pressed almost to the farther sea. Does that sea symbolize his death?

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To take the life of a nation during the slow march of centuries seems not a lighter crime than to crush it instantly with one fatal blow.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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