It does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULLGo 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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