God made me an Indian.
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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
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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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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 wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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