To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. – Black Elk
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. – Black Elk
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. – Black Elk
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt