Quotes By Sitting Bull
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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.
Sitting Bull
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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.
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.
Sitting Bull
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
Sitting Bull
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull
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.
Sitting Bull
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Sitting Bull
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
Sitting Bull
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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.
Sitting Bull
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
Sitting Bull
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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!
Sitting Bull