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!
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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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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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.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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