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

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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.

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.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

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