Sitting Bull Quotes

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• Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of…
• If we must die, we die defending our rights.
• I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
• 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…
• 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…
• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
• There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not…
• Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.…
• I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the…
• The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
• Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I…
• They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
• 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…
• God made me an Indian.
• He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
• What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
• This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
• What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
• What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

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