He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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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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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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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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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