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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.

Sitting Bull

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?
SITTING BULL

Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULL

Care Himself Lose Man
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULL

Choice Country Greatness Myself Spiritual
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?
SITTING BULL

Abuse Break Children Drink Law Man Myself See White
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULL

Leadership Myself Soldier
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Intention Myself Sorry
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULL

Destroy Nation Path Spring
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.
SITTING BULL

Dog Myself See Warrior Wolf Worth
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
SITTING BULL

Greatness Myself Spiritual Willing
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
SITTING BULL

Father Greatness Hold Land Ourselves Possession
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Himself Man See
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULL

Day Learning Myself Quick
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
SITTING BULL

Desire Different Heart Himself Planning
It does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULL

Reality Truth Word
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Greatness Man Spirit

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. 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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