Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
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“What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?”
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“First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.”
“The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.”
“I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.”
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“Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”
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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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“He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.”
“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.”
“This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.”
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Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
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“In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.”
“Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.”
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“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.”
“I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.”
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“If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.”
“You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.”
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“As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.”
“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.”
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