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.
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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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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 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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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