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.
SITTING BULLWhat does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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God made me an Indian.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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