He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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 wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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