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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

Biography

Author Profession: Leader
Born: 1863
Died: 1950

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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
Black Elk

A good nation I will make live.
Black Elk

I cured with the power that came through me.
Black Elk

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Black Elk

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black Elk

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After, Am, Beautiful, Because, Did, Die, Done, Even, Good, Know, Man, May, Meaning, Old, Only, Pitiful, Right, Save, See, Sooner, Think, Though, Vision, Way, Wise