Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
SITTING BULLIn my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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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 nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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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