What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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 have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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