"If the Great Spirit had desired me to……" — Sitting Bull
"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place."
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55 Quotes by Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull has 55 quotes on this site.
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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall…
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and…
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who…
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent…
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have…
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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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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because…
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have…
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking…
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... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their…
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that…
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and…
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what…
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