What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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 am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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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