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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

Sitting Bull

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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Animal Mystery Ourselves Power Right
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Goodness Himself Man See
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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Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
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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Desire Greatness Man Myself Place Spirit White
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Believe Goodness Injury Kill Man Peace Theft White
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Greatness Myself Spiritual Willing
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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Care Himself Lose Man
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Goodness Greatness Man Spirit
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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Desire Different Heart Himself Planning
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Animal Life Seed
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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Father Greatness Hold Land Ourselves Possession
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Death Ourselves Protection Right
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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Man Money Myself Theft White
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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Build God Identity Myself
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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Man Myself Remember Surrender Weapon
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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Agreement Country Forever Threat Time
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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Enough Love Mindset Possession Sick Strange
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White
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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Dog Evil Feed Fight Goodness Myself Philosophy Time
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Father Kill Myself Patriot Possession
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Himself Man White
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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Goodness Intention Myself Sorry
God made me an Indian.
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Build God Myself One Liner
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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Agreement Children Food Ourselves People White
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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Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Answer Myself Prayer Time

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