I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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.
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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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