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.
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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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God made me an Indian.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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