I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULLWhat white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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