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.
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?
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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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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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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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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