I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
SITTING BULL
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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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