Sitting Bull Quotes

“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.”
― Chief 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.”
― Sitting Bull

“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.”
― Sitting Bull

“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4 but the grand celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Republic. A country feeling its oats, flexing its muscles, vigorous and rich, cocksure and confident, has seen the impossible happen, the unthinkable become fact. Sitting Bull has spoiled their glorious Centennial, pissed on Custer's golden head, the head of a genuine Civil War hero, the head of someone who has recently been touted as a future President of the United States. Somehow a wedding and a funeral got booked for the same hour in the same church.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, A Good Man

“I hoped for one of my people to do this. But maybe if you can, it will bond you to the land and you’ll be able to rid the white man of his crimes.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“Sitting Bull gave most of the money away to the band of ragged, hungry boys who seemed to surround him wherever he went. He once told Annie Oakley, another one of the Wild West Show's stars, that he could not understand how white men could be so unmindful of their own poor. "The white man knows how to make everything," he said, "but he does not know how to distribute it.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West