What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULLFirst kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
-
-
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 BULL -
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.
SITTING BULL -
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!
SITTING BULL -
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?
SITTING BULL -
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
SITTING BULL -
God made me an Indian.
SITTING BULL -
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULL -
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
SITTING BULL -
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
SITTING BULL -
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.
SITTING BULL -
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL -
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULL -
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.
SITTING BULL -
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.
SITTING BULL -
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
SITTING BULL