Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
SITTING BULL
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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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 treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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.
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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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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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