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.
SITTING BULLIf the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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 was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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 know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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