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Black Elk Quotes

Black Elk quotes

Leader January 1, 1863 – January 1, 1950

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Black Elk quote: "It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of..."
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. Black Elk
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
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. Black Elk
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
Black Elk quote: "It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost"
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost Black Elk
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one. Black Elk
The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. Black Elk
Black Elk quote: "I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I..."
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. Black Elk
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
I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people. Black Elk
Black Elk quote: "Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their..."
Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where. Black Elk
Black Elk quote: "A good nation I will make live."
A good nation I will make live. Black Elk
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. Black Elk
Black Elk quote: "There can never be peace between nations until there is first..."
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. Black Elk
Black Elk quote: "I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the..."
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices. Black Elk

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