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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Sitting Bull

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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Battle Believe Death Goodness Injury Kill Man Myself White
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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Choice Country Greatness Myself Spiritual
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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Accomplishment Agreement Fulfill Goodness Home Purpose Sound
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.
SITTING BULL

Build Earth Herself Mom Nature Ourselves
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?
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Born Country Death Father Live Love Myself People Skin Wrong
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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Attention Lie Myself Pay Price Talk
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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Animal Children Death Himself Hunter Place Weakness
It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Reality Truth Word
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Greatness Myself Spiritual Willing
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Day Death Goodness Myself
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Himself Man White
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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Earth Friendship Love Myself Result Spring Sun
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Break Easy Fingers Strong Togetherness
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Growth Himself Home Ourselves People Stay
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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Agreement Children Food Ourselves People White
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Father Kill Myself Patriot Possession
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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Desire Greatness Man Myself Place Spirit White
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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Animal Mystery Ourselves Power Right
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
SITTING BULL

Enough Love Mindset Possession Sick Strange
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Goodness Himself Man See
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Animal Life Seed
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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Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Break Man Oneself White
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Earth Health Heart Mom Nature
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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Agreement Country Forever Threat Time
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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Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

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