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!
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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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 am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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