Sitting Bull Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

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

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

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

The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

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

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

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

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say ...

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

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 first place.

This is a good day to die. Follow me!

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

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

It does not take many words to tell the truth

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

The love of possession is a desease with them.

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.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

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

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