Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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 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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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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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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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