Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL
You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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.
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