“Black Robe” quotes

“- Montagnais: They have hairy faces like dogs. Who are they?
- Chomina: They are French.”

Marco Bacon - Montagnais
August Schellenberg - Chomina

“- Old Priest: The savages did this to me.
- Laforgue: The indians? Why?
- Old Priest: They are uncivilized, just as the English or Germans were before we came to them.”

Claude Préfontaine - Old Priest
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Chomina: Tomorrow do not cry out.
- Daniel: If we do cry out, will they stop?
- Chomina: No, they will not stop. But if you cry out when you die, they will have your spirit.”

August Schellenberg - Chomina
Aden Young - Daniel

“The savages live in outer darkness. We must convert them. What more glorious task than that?”
Claude Préfontaine - Old Priest

“Lord, if it be thy wish that I suffer greater privations in the days ahead, I welcome it. Thou hast given me this cross for thy honor and for the salvation of these poor barbarians. I thank thee.”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Laforgue: When I die, Chomina, I will go to paradise. Let me baptise you so I may take you with me.
- Chomina: Why would I go to your paradise? Are my people there? My woman? My boy?”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
August Schellenberg - Chomina

“- Mestigoit: Watch this, he is going to cast a spell.
- Laforgue: Oh God of mercy, please bless this innocent child...
- Chomina: No. He is talking to his God.”
Yvan Labelle - Mestigoit
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
August Schellenberg - Chomina

“- Laforgue: What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world; this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.
- Daniel: Farewell, Father Laforgue.
- Laforgue: No farewells. Not in this land. And no greetings, no names. The forests speak. The dead talk at night. God bless you both.”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
Aden Young - Daniel

“Lord, why is Fr. Jerome with you in Heaven, while Chomina lies forever in utter darkness? Help me.”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Laforgue: I put my trust in God. He will guide me all the way to paradise.
- Chomina: But you have not seen this paradise. No man should welcome death. This world is a cruel place.”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
August Schellenberg - Chomina

“- Daniel: Annuka told me they believe that in the forest at night the dead can see. The souls of men hunt the souls of animals.
- Father Laforgue: Is that what she told you? It is childish, Daniel.
- Daniel: Is it harder to believe in than Paradise where we all sit on clouds and look at God?”

Aden Young - Daniel
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Chomina: Blackrobe, what you do?
- Laforgue: I am making words.
- Chomina: Making words? You not speak.
- Laforgue: I will show you.”
August Schellenberg - Chomina
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Champlain: 1,500 miles by canoe, in that country, at the beginning of the winter. Death is almost certain, Father Bourque.
- Father Bourque: Death is not always a great evil, Monsieur Champlain.
- Champlain: God should have made me a Jesuit. You have answers for everything.”
Jean Brousseau - Champlain
François Tassé - Father Bourque

“- Annuka: Is the Blackrobe a demon? He must be. Blackrobes never have sex with women.
- Daniel: It's a promise they make to their God.
- Annuka: Why make a promise like that?
- Daniel: Strange, isn't it?”
Sandrine Holt - Annuka
Aden Young - Daniel

“The Blackrobes want us to give up the dream. To have only one wife. To stop killing our enemies. If we obey them, we will no longer be Hurons. And soon our enemies will know our weakness and wipe us from the earth.”

“- Father Jerome: Our only hope is that - some believe that baptism will cure their fever. If they ask for baptism, we must have a great public ceremony at once.
- Laforgue: Fr. Jerome, shouldn't we - I mean, mustn't they understand our faith before accepting it?
- Father Jerome: Understand? But they are in danger of death, and we are offering...” (continue)(continue reading)
Frank Wilson - Father Jerome
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Daniel: They have an afterworld of their own.
- Laforgue: They have no concept of one.”

Aden Young - Daniel
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Frenchman 1: Look at him, dressed like a savage chieftain. We're not colonizing the Indians; they're colonizing us.
- Frenchman 2: Not me they're not. I'm not becoming one of those wild woodsmen. In one more year, I'm going back to France.”

“- Laforgue: We have come to help you! We have been sent by our God, who is the God of us all!
- Montagnais: He can't speak properly.
- Chomina: They have their own tongue. It is like birds singing.
- Montagnais: Are they intelligent?
- Ougebmat: No.”

Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
Marco Bacon - Montagnais
August Schellenberg - Chomina
Billy Two Rivers - Ougebmat

“Lord, I beg you, show your mercy to these savage people, who will never look upon your face in Paradise.”

Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“If a dream is real, it must be obeyed.”
Sandrine Holt - Annuka

“- Huron Chief: A demon cannot feel grief. Are you a man?
- Laforgue: Yes.
- Huron Chief: You must help us Blackrobe. Do you love us?
- Laforgue: Yes.
- Huron Chief: Then baptize us.”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“- Chomina: Tell me, Blackrobe, what does your dream say now?
- Laforgue: I am too weary for dreams.”
August Schellenberg - Chomina
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue