“Cry Freedom” quotes
(1987)
Richard Attenborough
directed this movie
in 1987
Title Cry Freedom
Year 1987
Director Richard Attenborough
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 1987
Director Richard Attenborough
Genre Drama, History, Biography
All actors – Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, John Matshikiza, Juanita Waterman, Evelyn Sithole, Xoliswa Sithole, James Coine, Kevin Kline, Kevin McNally, Albert Ndinda, Andrew Whaley, Shelley Borkum, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, Graeme Taylor, Adam Stuart Walker, Hamish Stuart Walker, Spring Stuart Walker, Sophie Mgcina, Jim Findley, Patricia Gumede, Angela Gavaza, Nocebo Mlambo, Walter Matemavi, Clement Muchachi, Ruth Chinamando, Basil Chidyamathamba, Marcy Mushore, Alton Kumalo, Lawrence Simbarashe, Timothy West, Carl Chase, William Morgan Sheppard, Tichatonga Mazhindu, Zakes Mokae, John Thaw, Miles Anderson, Neil McPherson, Hepburn Graham, Claude Maredza, Carlton Chance, Glen Murphy, Russell Keith Grant, Munyaradzi Kanaventi, George Lovell, Andrew McCulloch, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Karen Drury, Niven Boyd, Tony Vogel, Christopher Hurst, Gerald Sim, Peter Cartwright, Gary Whelan, Dudley Dickin, David Trevena, Badi Uzzaman, Robert Phillips, Fishoo Tembo, Peggy Marsh, Gwyneth Strong, Julian Glover, John Hargreaves, Philip Bretherton, Paul Herzberg, Robert MacNamara, Hans Sittig, Kimpton Mativenga, David Henry, Michael Turner, Ian Richardson, Mawa Makondo, Kalie Hanekom, Paul Jerricho, Star Ncube, David Guwaza, Tommy Buson, Joseph Marcell, Hilary Minster, James Aubrey, Peter Cary, Dominic Kanaventi, Sam Mathambo, Walter Muparutsa, Judy Cornwell, Alec McCowen, Gwen Watford, John Paul, Louis Mahoney, Michael Graham Cox, John Hartley, Simon Shumba, Garrick Hagon, Nick Tate, Marilyn Poole, William Marlowe, Leonard Boucher, Ian McNeice
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“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.”
“You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!”
“You go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are...” (continue)(continue reading)
“People must not just give in to the hardship of life, they must find a way, even in these environments, to develop hope for themselves, hope for this country. Now I think that is what black consciousness is all about.”
“The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black.”
“- Judge Boshoff: Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.
- Steve Biko: Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.”“It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you.”
“- State Prosecutor: Your own words demand for direct confrontation!
- Steve Biko: That's right, we demand confrontation.
- State Prosecutor: Isn't that a demand for violence?
- Steve Biko: Well, you and I are now in confrontation, but I see no violence.”
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