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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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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God made me an Indian.
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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 treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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