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

Sitting Bull

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.
SITTING BULL

Country Growth Himself Home Ourselves People Stay
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULL

Day Death Goodness Myself
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULL

Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
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.
SITTING BULL

Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
SITTING BULL

Desire Different Heart Himself Planning
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
SITTING BULL

Control Freedom Man Ourselves Poor White
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULL

Break Easy Fingers Strong Togetherness
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
SITTING BULL

Earth Health Heart Mom Nature
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
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
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
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
SITTING BULL

Believe Goodness Injury Kill Man Peace Theft White
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULL

Death Ourselves Protection Right
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
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULL

Destroy Nation Path Spring

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