He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
SITTING BULLEach man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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God made me an 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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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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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