What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULLThe white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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 am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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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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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 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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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God made me an Indian.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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