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.
SITTING BULLOur 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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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God made me an Indian.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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 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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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