"When all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain."

"I have given up the warpath. I have laid down my arms. I want to live in peace."

"When a child, my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms."

"Kinsmen, you have heard what the Mexicans have recently done without cause. You are my relatives—uncles, cousins, brothers. We are men the same as the Mexicans are—we can do to them what they have don…"

"If I am killed no one need mourn for me. My people have all been killed in that country, and I, too, will die if need be."