“- Louis Gendick: These bullies are called Japs and Nazis.
- Danny Lyons: You mean the army.
- Louis Gendick: That won't be running away, Danny. That's real fighting.”

Henry Hall - Louis Gendick
Bobby Jordan - Danny Lyons

“Everybody was peeing on my head and telling me it was raining. Guess they figured I was some new kind of fool, and maybe I was. 'Cause I was ready to start fighting back. And I believed somehow that I could live through this bad dream I was having.”
Denzel Washington - Easy Rawlins

“John Truett. I've come here to ask you something. What do you mean hitting a five-year-old child? The next time you want to hit somebody, pick on somebody your own size. If there's anything I hate, loathe, despise, and abominate, it's a bully.”

Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“- Devon Butler: Everyday these big jumbos come and take my money... they put me in the toilet and they hold me upside down.
- Mr. Herman Fleming: Always blaming it on someone else.”
Norman D. Golden II - Devon Butler
Steve Carlisle - Mr. Herman Fleming

“- Bad Boy: So you thought you could make it around the block? So now I'm supposed to be scared of a water pistol?
- Louis: There ain't no water in this gun.
- Bad Boy: So what's in it?
- Louis: Piss!”

Sean Kelso - Bad Boy
Fred Savage - Louis