Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
SITTING BULLThe meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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 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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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