This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULLBehold, 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!
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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