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?
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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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