First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
SITTING BULLStrangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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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.
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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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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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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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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