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"I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were."
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"A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it."

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"Off... you will never understand me...You ignore me... now you... then it will be my turn!"

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"I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were."
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"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place."


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


"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."


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


"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."


"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"
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