Crazy Horse Quotes

1840–1877

Crazy Horse [Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó, literally "His-Horse-is-Crazy"; born Cha-O-Ha meaning "In The Wilderness" or "Among the Trees"] (c. 1842 – 5 September 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people.

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One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing‎ (2001)

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

Literature of the American Indian (1973)

My lands are where my dead lie buried.

I was not hostile to the white men. Sometimes my young men would attack the Indians who were their enemies and took their ponies. They did it in return.

Literature of the American Indian (1973)

They tried to confine me. I tried to escape, and a soldier ran his bayonet into me. I have spoken.

Literature of the American Indian (1973)

My friend, I do not blame you for this.

Literature of the American Indian (1973)

Hokahey! Today is a good day to die.

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Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be as one.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Crazy Horse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.