You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
SITTING BULLYou think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in 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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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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 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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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