Sitting Bull Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.”

“I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.”

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

“Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”