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.
SITTING BULLOur 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?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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