Top 10 Quotes by Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull, born around 1831 in present-day South Dakota, was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief and holy man. Known for his resistance to U.S. government policies, he played a key role in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, where his forces defeated General Custer's 7th Cavalry. After a period of exile in Canada, he surrendered in 1881 due to hardship. Sitting Bull later joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885. He was killed on December 15, 1890, by Indian agency police amid fears of his influence in the Ghost Dance movement. He remains a symbol of Native American resistance.

Top 10 Quotes by Sitting Bull

1. "Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most."
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2. "It does not take many words to tell the truth."
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3. "Behold, the Spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love!"
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4. "Every seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this land."
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5. "Yet, hear me, people, we have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule."
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6. "They promised how we are going to live peaceably on the land we still own and how they are going to show us the new ways of living – even told us how we can go to heaven when we die, but all that we realized out of the agreements with the Great Father was, we are dying off in expectation of getting things promised us."
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7. "What does it matter how I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?"
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8. "They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. The nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all that are in its path."
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9. "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. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows."
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10. "If we must die, we die defending our rights."
— Sitting Bull