“White folks just don't like to be pushed into a corner. They'll come around. You just got to make it look like it was their idea, like they're the ones that thought of it. They need to feel like they're the great emancipators. Like it was theirs to give in the first place. If that's all it takes, let them have it.”
Laurence Fishburne - Edward

“- Roger Murtaugh: Of course I'm black. That's why I want to go to South Africa...to join my oppressed brothers as they take up the struggle against this racist, fascist, white minority regime!
- Leo Getz: Racist white regime!
- Roger Murtaugh: One man, one vote!”
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh
Joe Pesci - Leo Getz

“- Tony Lip: I don't make the rules down here.
- Dr. Donald Shirley: No? Then who does?
- Tony Lip: You're saying just 'cause I'm white and they're white? You know, that's a very prejudiced thing you just said there. A very prejudiced thing. I got more in common with the Hymies at 2nd Avenue Deli than I do with these hillbilly pricks down here.”
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip
Mahershala Ali - Dr. Donald Shirley

“Who do you funky niggas think you are?”
Ebony Obsidian - Adrienne Hunt

“- Mildred Hayes: So how's it all going in the nigger- torturing business, Dixon?
- Dixon: It's 'Persons of color'-torturing business, these days, if you want to know. And I didn't torture nobody.”
Frances McDormand - Mildred
Sam Rockwell - Dixon