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
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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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 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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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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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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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