Unbowed (1999)

Vincent McLean: Simon Crow

Quotes 

• Mother : Diseases have killed many more Indians than bullets Mr. Parker. Whole tribes were wiped out by cholera, smallpox, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Why do you think that is Mr. Hancock?

  Simon Crow : Because they didn't have any resistance, sir?

  Mother : Does that strike a familiar chord Mr. Singleterry?

  President Duquesne : Yes, sir. Many of the early slaves died of the same diseases. The same reasons.

  Mother : Yes, we had that in common.

• Lewis : I thought slavery was over.

  [both doing labor for the college] 

  Simon Crow : Hunting buffalo is more fun.

  Lewis : Picking cotton makes more money.

  Simon Crow : This is better than learn science.

  Lewis : Washte.

  [Lakota phrase for it is good] 

• Waka Mani : I was in the calvary two years, I know Indians!

  Simon Crow : Maybe they won't be too red.

  Waka Mani : I grew up in west Oklahoma, Indian Territory. The Indians there held slaves, treated them like niggers! Civil War wasn't over two days when some Choctaw bastard spit in my grandfather's skull.

  Junius : I'm sorry, Junius.

  Waka Mani : We should kill them all.

  Junius : I didn't know. But suppose I had a drop of Indian blood, would you kill me?