David Oyelowo movie quotes

“Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. We fight! We fight!”
David Oyelowo - Joe 'Lightning' Little

“We negotiate, we demonstrate, we resist.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our two-year mission to K-23 has us returning with more answers than questions. Can it sustain life? Yes. Can it expand? Yes. Could it be home? Yes, it could. Every question
we set out to answer, we did, except the one that lingers in the air. Why is it so quiet?”
David Oyelowo - Adewole

“What happens when a man says enough is enough?”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“- Martin Luther King Jr.: We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every white lawman who abuses the law to terrorize. Every white politician who feeds on prejudice and hatred. Every white preacher who preaches the Bible and stays silent before his white congregation.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You know everything about the human brain except the way it works.”

David Oyelowo - Steven Jacobs

“- Robert Franklin: Please, Mr. Jacobs! Lives are at stake! These are animals with personalities, with attachments!
- Steven Jacobs: Attachments?
- Robert Franklin: Yes.
- Steven Jacobs: I run a business, not a petting zoo. Find the most cost-effective way to put those apes down!”

Tyler Labine - Robert Franklin
David Oyelowo - Steven Jacobs

Those who have gone before us say "no more"! No more! That means protest! That means march! That means disturb the peace! That means jail! That means risk! That is hard!
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is unacceptable that they use their power to keep us voiceless.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“While I was a physics major in college, we studied something called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It proves that there is no such thing as zero tolerance. It doesn't exist. You basically can't be 100% sure of anything no matter how hard you try. Accidents... happen.”
David Oyelowo - Payne

“- Louis Gaines: We're more grass roots. One-on-one with the community. Although we have started our own political party.
- Charlie Gaines: What's your party? You like to party? I like to party. What's your party called?
- Carol Hammie: The Black Panther Party.”
David Oyelowo - Louis Gaines
Elijah Kelley - Charlie Gaines (15-18)
Yaya DaCosta - Carol Hammie

“Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every Negro man and woman who stands by without joining this fight as their brothers and sisters are brutalized, humiliated, and ripped from this Earth.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“- Cooper: You're ruling my son out for college now? The kid's fifteen.
- School Principal: Tom's score simply isn't high enough.
- Cooper: What's your waistline? 32? With, what, a 33 inseam?
- School Principal: I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
- Cooper: You're telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
David Oyelowo - School Principal

“Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“- Steven Jacobs: You used an untested drug on your father. I could end your career with one phone call.
- Will Rodman: Let me save you the trouble. I quit.”
David Oyelowo - Steven Jacobs
James Franco - Will Rodman

“- Djonjo: You deserve to die. But dead, you can do nothing. Alive, you might just be able to redeem yourself.”

David Oyelowo - Djonjo
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“Keep your personal emotions out of it. These people invest in results, not dreams.”

David Oyelowo - Steven Jacobs