“A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”

— Crazy Horse

As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing‎ (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214

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Oglala Sioux chief 1840–1877

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