Sitting Bull Quotes

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

Whether a miracle draws me out of here or I have to present myself on a scaffold, liberty and equality will be my first and last words…

We want peace, standing on our feet, not on our knees.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Death is better than slavery.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

Cling to freedom because among God’s favorite creations, freedom is most beautiful and delicate.