I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULLEach man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Inside 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.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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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 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.
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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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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