There is a few of meaningful quotes in the movie:
James Farmer: We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.
( The Last Debate in Harvard university--James's argument)
In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. Not when Negroes are denied housing. Turned away from schools, hospitals. And not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law in no law at all.' Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.
''Hating you shall be a game played with cool hands.''
''Memory will lay its hands upon your breast, and you will understand my hatred.
Who's the judge?A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child in the eyes? See the blood on his feet from working barefoot in the cotton fields. Or do you ask his baby sister with her belly swollen from hunger if she cares about her daddy's work ethics?
The judge is God.
Why is he God?
Because he decides
who wins or loses,not my opponent. Who is your opponent?
He doesn't exist
Why does he not exist?
He's merely a dissenting voice
to the truth l speak.
Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus, Prince of Peace, and Bethlehem Steel makes weapons of war.
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