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 BULLI wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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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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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God made me an 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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