I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
SITTING BULLIs 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?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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 will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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