The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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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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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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