What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red, because I am Sioux, because I was born where my fathers lived, because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

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Topic

Native Americans

Speaker

Sitting Bull

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Native American leader Native American

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

Current Citation

Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

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Another quote from the 1880s

Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot, and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. It wears us, uses us, but we wear it and use it in return; and it is blind, whereas we after a manner see.

Henry James

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Topic
Learning from suffering Suffering

Author

Henry James
Source
Letters of Henry James
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

James, Henry. Letter to Grace Norton. 28 July 1883.

Current Citation

James, Henry. "July 28th [1883] To Grace Norton." The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884, edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. Vol. 1, University of Nebraska Press, 2018.