Sitting Bull quotes - page 2

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself. (Sitting Bull)

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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. (Sitting Bull)

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

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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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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

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It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

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You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.

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I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed.

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

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

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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.

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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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I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

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Occupation: Statesman
Born: 1831
Died: December 15, 1890
Quotes count: 54
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