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 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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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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