Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULLThe meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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