I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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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.
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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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