In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULLBehold, 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!
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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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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Go 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.
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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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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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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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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 have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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