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.
SITTING BULLYou think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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