It does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULLWhen I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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 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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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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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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