Unbowed (1999)

Rugg Williams: Lewis

Quotes 

• Lewis : They shouldn't be locked up anymore.

  [referring to the native students] 

  Junius : Careful, the red is showing beneath the black.

• 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] 

• Lewis : Indian has often been a friend to the negro. Professor Clark is a half-breed, his family was rescued from slavery by the Seminoles.

  Junius : That was Florida!

  Lewis : There are a hundred other examples.

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

  Isaac : Maybe they won't be too red.

  Junius : 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.

  Lewis : I'm sorry, Junius.

  Junius : We should kill them all.

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

• Junius : I thought slavery was over.

  [both doing labor for the college] 

  Lewis : Hunting buffalo is more fun.

  Junius : Picking cotton makes more money.

  Lewis : This is better than learn science.

  Junius : Washte.

  [Lakota phrase for it is good]