Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
SITTING BULLHe put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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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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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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