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?
SITTING BULLWhat 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?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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God made me an Indian.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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 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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