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.
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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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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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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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 was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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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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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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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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