I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
SITTING BULLInside 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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