The American Indians have not one single oath in their mother tongues. They do swear now, but they swear in English and French. Their wonderful reverence for the Great Spirit kept their language undefiled by profane words.
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Native reverence for the Great Spirit kept profanity out of their original languages.
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— Woodrow Wilson
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— Ellen G. White
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— Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, D.D.
