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?
SITTING BULLEvery seed is awakened, and all animal life.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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God made me an Indian.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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