Have Gun - Will Travel

Osata: (Looking at Minoru) He will grow to be a strong man, like his father. Now that he has learned.

Paladin: Learned?

Osata: Yes. You see, when he first came, he had much pride. He did not understand.

Paladin: Can a man walk without pride?

Osata: This, uh, not your lovely city of San Francisco, Mr. Paladin. This Quinta County. Is different here. We must move slowly. Softly. And wait. Always wait.

(The samurai has dashed outside and scattered the horses into the desert.)

Priest: You may shoot him. His life has no meaning but to die for a cause.

Paladin: And you?

Priest: I am nothing. Death is nothing.

Paladin: Oh? Well, I hope you remember that when the temperature hits a hundred and twenty.

Priest: We will not die. You will die. We shall survive.

Priest: (To Paladin) You, I understand. The master is always happy in his own house. (To Minoru) But you, I do not.

Minoru: Yeah? Well, that makes two of us, 'cuz I don't understand you either.

Priest: You are a slave that pretends to walk like a man.

Minoru: I use to have a number of good answers to that. I guess I must have forgotten.

Paladin: Minoru, when a change comes, sometimes it comes slowly. But it will come.

Priest: How long to come? Twenty years, to be--as you say--equal?

Paladin: Twenty years? Perhaps. Maybe more. Possibly less.

Priest: I see. That is to be equal. Twenty years more, is it possible then, he could be--superior?

Paladin: His opportunity will be equal. What he does with it, is up to him.

Priest: We have much further?

Paladin: Less than a mile. And, don't count on me getting any weaker.

Priest: I see. The wise hawk conceals his claws.

Paladin: And the wise man, his wisdom.

(Minoru suddenly turns on Paladin, demanding his gun.)

Paladin: It's less than a mile to Osata's.

Minoru: A nice Japanese boy for a nice Japanese girl. Don't bother, Paladin.

Paladin: And your father? (Tosses over his gun.)

Minoru: He made his choice. Now I'm making mine. I listened to every word he said. Speak soft, speak low, and wait. For what? For a life in the shadows, hoping for one day to be equal? Equal! Just for a moment, think, Paladin. Think about the possibility that I might be better than you!

Paladin: (Sighing.) I'm thinking, Minoru. And I believe it. I think under the proper circumstance you might be just about equal to those two back in the store. You might be just as superior. Just as bigoted. Just as frightened.

(Paladin has defeated the samurai warrior.)

Minoru: I've been very foolish.

Paladin: Yeah. Someday the idea of equality will be a fact. Till then, we're all a little bit foolish.

Priest: When I return to Japan, I will speak of the man named Paladin.