Sitting Bull Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.

  Sitting Bull

  Coffee, Believe, Men

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 73), 1993.

• The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Fashion, Moving

  Quoted in James Creelman, On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special Correspondent (1901)

• I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.

  Sitting Bull

  Son, Boys, Men

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