I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
SITTING BULLGo back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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