Sitting Bull Quotes
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Eastman, Charles A. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains. Little, Brown, and Company, 1918, p. 121.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Song traditionally sung at the end of British Labour Party meetings
This was one of the first calls for a slave strike in America.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
The audience which included George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, all began chanting “give me liberty or give me death!”
See Joseph Addison which may have been the inspiration for this famous quote: {613374}.
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.
