“I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man.”
Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.”

Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“Frankie, when you get to jail, you might want to talk to some of the brothers on your views of racial equality.”
Lenny Henry - Miles Pope

“You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond and whose skin was the whitest of whites. And we are brothers, truly.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- Iggy: Would you swim in an integrated swimming pool?
- Tracy Turnblad: I sure would, Iggy. I'm a modern kind of girl, I'm all for integration.”
Josh Charles - Iggy
Ricki Lake - Tracy Turnblad