What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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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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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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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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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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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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