Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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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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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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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