Red Cloud Quotes

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• I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our…
• Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
• I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in…
• We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .…
• Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was…
• We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
• You whites make all the ammunition.
• The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off…
• The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
• The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
• The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and…
• When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name…
• They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took…

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