“Free State of Jones” quotes
(2016)
Gary Ross
directed this movie
in 2016
Title Free State of Jones
Year 2016
Director Gary Ross
Genre Drama, Biography, Action
Year 2016
Director Gary Ross
Genre Drama, Biography, Action
Plot – Newt Knight was a Southern farmer who rebelled against the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Knight led a revolt to separate Jones County from the Confederation army. He married a former slave and they started the first mixed-race community after the war.
All actors – Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell, Christopher Berry, Sean Bridgers, Jacob Lofland, Thomas Francis Murphy, Bill Tangradi, Brian Lee Franklin, Kerry Cahill, Joe Chrest, Jessica Collins, Donald Watkins, Jill Jane Clements, Dane Rhodes, Lawrence Turner, Troy Hogan, Greg Kennedy, Artrial Clark, Charlie Anderson, Cade Mansfield Cooksey, Liza J. Bennett, David Jensen, Bill Martin Williams, Jim Kelly, John P. Fertitta, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Jane McNeil, David Maldonado, Wayne Pére, John Neisler, Sharon Landry, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Kurt Krause, Andrew Petrotta, Joseph Hosey, Henry Frost, P.J. Marshall, Lucy Faust, Lara Grice, Johnny McPhail, Kylen Davis, LaJessie Smith, Kesha Bullard, Jackson Beals, Sam Malone, William Mark McCullough, Garrett Kruithof, Martin Bats Bradford, Jaren Mitchell, Jim Klock, Will Beinbrink, Stella Allen, Camden Flowers, Carsen Flowers, Jason Ament, Kirk Bovill, Matt Lintz, Mattie Liptak, Trace Masters, Brandon Hartley, Paul Alan Webb, Victoria Bynum, Manny Penton, Francine Rush Levenstein, Monique Bilbo, Samantha Hopkins, Shelby Sanders, Melanie Hebert, Jackson Lee Brockton, Joe Girard, Ann Hamilton, James G. Hanifen, Ethan Lee, Pine Purvis, Julia Holt, , John Robert Carpenter, Michelle L. Clarke, Davis Coen, Gary Grubbs, Tim Bell, Eric Berris, Bryan Blasingame, Nicolas Bosc, Emily Bossak, Levi Bowling, Deejay Buras, Blaine Carpenter, Carlton Caudle, Ron Centanni, Nolan Cummings, James David Gabriel, Terrell D Davis, Miles Donald, Terence Easterling, Brian Elder, Maggie Eldred, James W. Evermore, Dudley Fuqua, Juan Gaspard, Steven Grossman, Joel Guilbeau, Larry D. Heard, Chris D. Henry, Adam Henslee, Newton James Hippolyte Jr., Garrett Hollingsworth, Kasey James, Jeffrey Johnese, Alicia Davis Johnson, Matthew Jolly, Sam Jones, Anthony Kane, Patrick Kearns, Kensley Keys, Steve Kish, Gary Wayne Loper, Lamar Lott, David Lee Marshall, Aaron N. Martin, Glen Mayes, Bailey Vaughn McAndrew, Matthew McCoy, Daniel McIver, Claire McReynolds, Cameron Metrejean, Ritchie Montgomery, Zach Mooney, Serenity Neil, Jason Palombo, Cy Parks, Zack Payne, Brandon Pettis, Joshua Probus, Matthew Blake Rogers, Michael Patrick Rogers, Marlene B. Russell, Jarett Shorts, Kerry Sims, Carl Singleton, Lisa Ann Smith, Michael David Smith, Carl Stevens, Stefani Strout, Steven Varnes, Abigail Williams, Valeria Lee Williams, Bobby D. Willis, Kebron Woodfin, Jesse Yarborough
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“It ain't just for us. Black, white, rich, poor, it's for everybody.”
“- Colonel Robert Lowry: They pulled all of Jones, Jasper, Perry and half of Smith County.
- Chester: How is that even possible?”“- Will Sumrall: He died with honor.
- Newton Knight: No, Will, he just died.”“I'm tired of it. You, me, all of it! We're all out there dying so they can stay rich!”
“He’s asking if I ought to kill a man for some corn ... I don’t know ... See here, lieutenant, you steal our corn we got nothing to feed the hog. If we can’t feed the hog we got nothing to put in the smokehouse, we got nothing to put in the smokehouse we starve in the winter. That’s murder, ain’t it? You know what the penalty for murder is, don’t...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Number one, no man ought to stay poor so another man can get rich. Number two, no man ought to tell another man what you got to live for or what he's got to die for. Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest and there ain't no man ought to be able to take that away from you. Number four, every man is a man. If you...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Newton Knight: Mr. Moses, what are you?
- Moses Washington: A free man, captain.
- Newton Knight: Sure is.”
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