As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULLWhat does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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 a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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