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.
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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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!
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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God made me an Indian.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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