If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULLYou 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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 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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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