Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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God made me an Indian.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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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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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.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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