If 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.
SITTING BULLEach 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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 woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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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 here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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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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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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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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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.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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