Sitting Bull
Quotes by Sitting Bull
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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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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 their love!
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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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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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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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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
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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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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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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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 was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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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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It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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