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.
SITTING BULLYou think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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It 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.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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 have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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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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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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