Author: Sitting Bull

Quotes

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

- Sitting Bull

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

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

- Sitting Bull

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

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

- Sitting Bull

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

- Sitting Bull

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.

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.

- Sitting Bull

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

- Sitting Bull

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

- Sitting Bull

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.

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.

- Sitting Bull

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

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

- Sitting Bull

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