You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULL
Behold, 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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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 is a good day to die. Follow me!
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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God made me an Indian.
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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 white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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