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.
SITTING BULLIf a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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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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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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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?
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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