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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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?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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 nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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