Broken Arrow (1950)

Jay Silverheels: Geronimo

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Quotes 

• Geronimo : You speak our tongue?

  Tom Jeffords : A little.

  Geronimo : White men pay many dollars for the scalp of an Apache. You know that.

  Tom Jeffords : I know.

  Geronimo : Then why did you not take his scalp?

  Tom Jeffords : If I kill an Apache, it will not be for scalp or money.

  Geronimo : Why not? My people and your people are at war.

  Tom Jeffords : It is not my way to fight.

  Geronimo : It is the way of all white eyes!

  Tom Jeffords : It is not my way!

  Nahilzay : You are a woman, maybe!

  Tom Jeffords : It is well-known that Apaches do not take scalps either, and they are not women.

• Geronimo : Why are you here in our mountains?

  Tom Jeffords : I look for gold and silver.

  Geronimo : For what?

  Tom Jeffords : For 'yellow iron.'

• Geronimo : You did not kill. We will not kill this time. But not again!

• [Tom Jeffords has just witnessed the torture of Geronimo's prisoners] 

  Geronimo : Learn it. Learn it well. This is Apache land. You have no right here. Where Cochise lives, no white man can live.

  Nahilzay : Take your weapons. Go. Let your face not be seen again.

• Geronimo : I trust none of it. Four days ago, we were given our territory on a piece of paper. Today, we cannot go into Mexico. The American general says 'No.' Already our territory is smaller. Where will we get corn, blankets, horses if not by taking them from the Mexican as we always have?

  Cochise : The American government will give us cattle. We will raise them and trade them for our needs.

  Geronimo : The answer of a woman.

• Geronimo : It is not the Apache way to be grandmothers to cattle. Cochise has lost his taste for battle and so he is ready to surrender. He throws away our victories. It is not this false peace that we need, but a new chief!

• Cochise : Take your women. Your children. Your horses. Your weapons. Leave our territory.

  Geronimo : I leave you my name also. Now I am ashamed to be a Chiricahua. I will take the name Mexican enemies have given me. The whites will learn it. And you will learn it. From now on, I am Geronimo.

  Cochise : If Geronimo or his followers come to this territory again, let them com with weapons.