Sitting Bull Quotes

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

Love, Friends, Spring

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull

Life, Children, Together

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

Die, Rights, Defending

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

Wish, Last, Surrender

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

Drunk, Children, Law

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

Environmental, Mother, Away

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

Good, Home, Try

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

Good, Necessary, Sight

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

Love, Father, Country

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
Sitting Bull

Time, Give, Another

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Sitting Bull

Knows, White, Distribute

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

Great, Place, Spirit

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull

Love, Mind, Enough

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

Men, Today, Battle

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull

Heart, Different, Put

God made me an Indian.
Sitting Bull

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
Sitting Bull

Love, Sun, Earth

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

Good, Great, Spirit

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

Necessary, Eagles, Crows

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

Broken, Red, Kept

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

Power, Through, Same

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

Spring, Path, Nation

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

Money, White, Land

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull

Lonely, Bad, Woman

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Biography

Type: Statesman

Born: 1831

Died: December 15, 1890

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