If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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