Sitting Bull Quotes

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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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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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

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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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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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The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

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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.

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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 mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

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You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

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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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