If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad 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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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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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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