This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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 wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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