He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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Strangely 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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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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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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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