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"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."


"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."


"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."


"They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time."


"What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian."


"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?"
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