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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

Sitting Bull

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
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 BULL

Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
SITTING BULL

Father Kill Myself Patriot Possession
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.
SITTING BULL

Agreement Children Food Ourselves People White
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULL

Day Death Goodness Myself
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULL

Man Myself Remember Surrender Weapon
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULL

Himself Man White
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULL

Build God Identity Myself
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?
SITTING BULL

Battle Boy Man Ourselves Rise Sun Warrior World
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
SITTING BULL

Man Money Myself Theft White
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULL

Death Ourselves Protection Right
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
SITTING BULL

Animal Children Death Himself Hunter Place Weakness
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Himself Man See
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULL

Leadership Myself Soldier
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?
SITTING BULL

Abuse Break Children Drink Law Man Myself See White
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.
SITTING BULL

Desire Greatness Man Myself Place Spirit White

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