Sitting Bull Quotes
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.
Vestal, Stanley. Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932, p. 268.
The voters didn't give him a chance to fulfill that pledge. Hearst was defeated in the New York mayoralty race.
There was pressure on all statewide candidates to pledge to support the war effort in the controversial Vietnam War.
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.