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Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Statesman

Born: 1831

Died: Dec 15, 1890

Good Great Made Man Me White

Related authors: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Benjamin Disraeli Colin Powell Edmund Burke Lucius Annaeus Seneca Marcus Tullius Cicero Nelson Mandela Winston Churchill

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. Sitting Bull

Man Surrender Wish Tribe Remembered Rifle Last

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

If we must die, we die defending our rights. Sitting Bull

Death Rights Our Must Die Defending

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

Good Man Sight Crows His Each Each Man Eagles Necessary

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly. Sitting Bull

Days Learn Learned Quickly Therefore Eager Things Early Early Days

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

Animal Power Too Our Neighbors Ourselves Vast Mysterious Through Yield Same Being Land Inhabit Therefore Even Right

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 treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. Sitting Bull

Broken Man Red Whites Kept Treaty

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Sitting Bull

Crows Eagles Necessary

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am. Sitting Bull

You Fool Think Greater Am Than

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were. Sitting Bull

Good Sorry Out Supposed Were Very Intentions Your Found

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. Sitting Bull

Good Great Man Sight Spirit Great Spirit Each Each Man

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. Sitting Bull

Made Country Assured Seven Threaten Only Take Also Buffalo Were Years Years Ago Left Forever Which Us Should Now Treaty

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. Sitting Bull

Great Will Spirit Great Spirit Am His Chief Here

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. Sitting Bull

Path Spring Nation Destroys Like Banks Who

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. Sitting Bull

Man Free White Our Footsteps Controls Poor Now

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. Sitting Bull

Life Animal Every Seed Animal Life Awakened

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