Quote by Black Elk
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced

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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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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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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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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