Black Elk

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  • “The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.” -Black Elk

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  • “I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.” -Black Elk

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  • “You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.” -Black Elk

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  • “I cured with the power that came through me.” -Black Elk

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  • “There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.” -Black Elk

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  • “Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” -Black Elk

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  • “Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” -Black Elk

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  • “And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.” -Black Elk

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  • “Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” -Black Elk

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  • Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers. – Black Elk

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