Each 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.
SITTING BULLThe meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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 am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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