- "I have always thought slavery was a bad thing-not because I have a particular love for the Negro, but because I believe in the brotherhood of man."
-Abraham Lincoln to Father Desmet
    January 1865
- "It is better to die free than to live as a slave."
-Sitting Bull to Isaiah Dorman
    September 1850
- "Battles are won by the power of the mind."
-Sitting Bull
  December 1860
- "Many years ago I gave you a choice...freedom to roam with us or slavery with the white man."
-Sitting Bull to Teat at the Little Big Horn
  June 25, 1876
- "I BECAME ISAIAH...I felt his pain, his desire to be free, his search for freedom. I walked in his shoes and felt the cold and harsh winters; experienced his love for Kay, and later his Indian wife, Mata...I WAS THERE, because Mr. Gould is such a wonderful, and vivid story teller...he allowed me to become (and feel) a part of history.
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