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?
More Quotes from Sitting Bull:
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.Sitting Bull
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
Sitting Bull
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Sitting Bull
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.
Sitting Bull
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Sitting Bull
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: War & Peace Quotes, World QuotesBased on Keywords: sioux, slew
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
Jonas Salk