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"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."
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"The mind of a man!"
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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
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"We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle."
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"Power is not powerful without wisdom."
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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."
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"People demand freedom only when they have no power."
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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
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"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."
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"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one."
Man


"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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"Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit."
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"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."
Home


"It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."
Identity


"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief."
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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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"Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father."
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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."
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