This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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.
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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 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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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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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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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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.
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