Words matter. These are the best Sitting Bull Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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.
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.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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?
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
