Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULLIf a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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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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