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 BULLAs individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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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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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.
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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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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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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 does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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