Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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 I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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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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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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