Love Quote by Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull’s line is diplomacy sharpened into theology. By invoking “He,” the speaker doesn’t just gesture at a generic God; he steps onto a shared moral playing field where treaties, land, and sovereignty can’t be reduced to paperwork. If the same Creator placed “wishes and plans” in each heart, then Native resistance isn’t a tantrum or a “misunderstanding” to be managed by the state. It’s a vocation. The move is strategic: he refuses the colonizer’s favored frame (civilization versus savagery) and replaces it with an uncomfortably equal one (divine purpose versus divine purpose).

The genius is in the symmetry and the calm. “Certain wishes and plans” suggests coherence, a long view; “other different desires” refuses the lie that one side’s appetite is history and the other’s is obstruction. Sitting Bull implies that American expansionism is not an inevitable law of progress but a particular set of wants - contingent, chosen, morally legible. That’s a subtle demotion of empire: your plans are not destiny, they’re desires.

Context matters. In the late 19th-century collision of U.S. military power and Lakota autonomy, the dominant rhetoric cast conquest as providential. Sitting Bull flips providence into pluralism. He doesn’t ask for pity; he asserts irreducible difference with the authority of conscience. The subtext is a warning wrapped in civility: if your God authored your intentions, don’t pretend mine are illegitimate - and don’t be surprised when we act on them.