This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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