Sitting Bull Quotes

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  Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

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  Dog, Mean, Fighting

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• For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.

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  Children, Fighting, Warrior

  "Follow the Money Deep Underground" by Shadi Rahimi, www.motherjones.com. December 2, 2008.

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• As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

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  Broken, Together, Fists

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• Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

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  Father, Race, People

  "Chief Sitting Bull knew of the Elite in this 1877 speech". Sitting Bull's speech at the Powder River Conference, beforeitsnews.com. 1877.

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  It does not take many words to tell the truth

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  Doe, Telling The Truth

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• What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

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  Men, White Man, Broken

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  The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

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  Country, Fashion, Moving

  Quoted in James Creelman, On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special Correspondent (1901)

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  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 and their refuse.

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  Mother, Native American, Environmental

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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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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  Men, Wish, Rifles

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• If we must die, we die defending our rights.

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  Native American, Rights, India

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• If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

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  Native American, Heart, Men

  "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

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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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  Men, White, Doe

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• I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.

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  Coffee, Believe, Men

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 73), 1993.

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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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  Friends, Spring, Earth

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• Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

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  Catholic, Doe, Different

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

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  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

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  Mother, Heart, Feet

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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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  Native American, Animal, Yield

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

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  Justice, Made, Reservations

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• 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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  Lying, Attention, Want

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 196), 1993.

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• What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

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  Prayer, Long, Doe

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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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  Giving Up, Land, Want

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• If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

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  Inspirational, Native American, Men

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• A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

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  Native American, Wind, People

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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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  Dog, Warrior, Agency

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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