Sitting Bull — "The white man is afraid of us. He is afraid of our power. He is afraid of our sp…"

"The Great Spirit made us all. He made the white man and the red man. He gave us different ways. We should respect each other's ways."

"My heart is heavy. My spirit is sad. My people are suffering."

"Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?"

"The white man draws a circle around himself and calls it a fence. We draw a circle around ourselves and call it a nation."

"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."