They often speak without thinking about the words before they leave their lips. People say all sorts of things, often without much regard as to whether or not they are true. And so, there is iron in your word of life.” Most captivating to my thoughts, though, is the contrast between words of death and words of life. It contains many profound thoughts about honesty, commitment, respect and even peace. This conversation has always caused me to stop and think-even as I typed it out now. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life. The word of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. And so there is iron in your word of life. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. Ten Bears: It’s sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. And I’m saying that men can live together without butchering one another. I’m just giving you life and you’re giving me life. Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have. Josey: It’s here in my pistols, there in your rifles. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. Now, we’ll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. I came here like this so you’ll know my word of death is true. Well I’ve come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. With governments you don’t always get a fair word or a fair fight. Governments don’t live together, people live together. Dying ain’t so hard for men like you and me, it’s living that’s hard when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. In “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” a man trying to rebuild his war-shattered life, rides out to face a Comanche chieftain. One of the cinema’s most powerful scenes occurs in a film many might disregard due to its genre.
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