If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULLI 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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