The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULLThis nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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God made me an Indian.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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