In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULLIt is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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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 meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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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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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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