Quotes by Red Cloud

“We do not want riches, we want peace and love”

“The fire of hope almost went out; we have to rekindle it,”

“Getting the goodness of light-skinned society ... Learn to live among them, learn their education, their language - all the goodness.”

“After the seventh generation, we would become self-sufficient by taking their goodness and that (goodness) of the Lakota,”

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.