65 Quotes by Sitting Bull

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. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.

Un guerrier n'est pas ce que vous croyez. Ce n'est pas quelqu'un qui part faire la guerre pour prendre la vie des autres. Pour nous un guerrier c'est quelqu'un qui sacrifie tout de lui pour le bien-être des autres. Il protège et prend soin des aînés, de ceux qui sont sans défense, de ceux qui ne peuvent le faire pour eux-mêmes et par dessus tout les enfants qui sont le futur de notre humanité.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?