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?
SITTING BULLEach 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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