As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULLIt 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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, but not a reservation Indian.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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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.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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