When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
SITTING BULLWhat white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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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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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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