What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULLInside 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
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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.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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God made me an Indian.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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