If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULLThere 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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?
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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