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.
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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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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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 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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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 know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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