To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Black Elk
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- 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.
- Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
- 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.
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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.