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.
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist. - Sitting Bull
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
- Sitting Bull
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. - Sitting Bull
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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! - Sitting Bull
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!
It does not take many words to tell the truth - Sitting Bull
It does not take many words to tell the truth
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… - Sitting Bull
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…
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… - Sitting Bull
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…
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 th… - Sitting Bull
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 th…
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 … - 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 …
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 en… - Sitting Bull
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 en…
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