As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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God made me an 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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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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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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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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