"Free to talk, think and act for myself"

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce recounts his trip to Washington, D.C. (1879)

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself--and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. 

                                                                                                             -Chief Joseph