“Freedom Writers” quotes
(2007)
Richard LaGravenese
directed this movie
in 2007
Title Freedom Writers
Year 2007
Director Richard LaGravenese
Genre Drama, Crime, Biography
Year 2007
Director Richard LaGravenese
Genre Drama, Crime, Biography
All actors – Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jaclyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria, Hunter Parrish, Antonio García, Giovonnie Samuels, John Benjamin Hickey, Robert Wisdom, Pat Carroll, Will Morales, Armand Jones, Ricardo Molina, Angela Alvarado, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Katie Soo, Liisa Cohen, Brian Bennett, Horace Hall, Tim Halligan, Lisa Banes, Giselle Bonilla, Earl Williams, Blake Hightower, Angela Sargeant, Robin Skye, Chil Kong, Juan Garcia, Larry Cahn, Sharaud Moore, Abel Soto, Dan Warner, Randy Hall, Carl Paoli, Dominic Daniel, Cody Chappel, DJ Motiv8, Renee Firestone, Eddie Ilam, Elisabeth Mann, Gloria Ungar, Jorge Luis Alvarez, Rock Anthony, Sonny Mario Ayon, Dre Bowie, David Cohen, Chrissy Crook, Ashley Glenn, Robert Gonzalez, Robert Christopher Henderson, Annie Hsu, Elizabeth Ince, Michael James Lazar, Don Le, Deon Lucas, Angela Nesbitt, Ihuoma Ofordire, Jeran Pascascio, Palma Lawrence Reed, Kirsten Roeters, Joe Seo, Joe Towne, Audia Tulloch, Anthony E. Valentin, Alfredo Viramontes
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“Life would be a whole lot better if they were all dead. That's how a holocaust happens.
And that's what you all think of each other.”“I saw a picture just like this once, in a museum. Only it wasn't a black man, it was a jewish man. And instead of the big lips he had a really big nose, like a rat's nose. But he wasn't just one particular jewish man. This was a drawing of all jews. And these drawings were put in the newspapers by the most famous gang in history. You think you...” (continue)(continue reading)
“You can't make someone want education.”
“At sixteen, I've seen more bodies than a mortician. Every time I step out my door I face the risk of being shot. To the rest of the world it's just another dead body on a street corner. They don't know that he was my friend.”
“Jews and blacks were more like animals. And because they were just like animals it didn't matter if they lived or died.”
“In every war, there is an enemy. I watched my mother being half-beaten to death, and watched as blood and tears streamed down her face. I felt useless and scared, and furious at the same time.”
“They started out poor and angry and everybody looked down on them. Until one man decided to give them some pride, an identity... and somebody to blame. You take over neighborhoods? That's nothing compared to them. They took over countries. You want to know how? They just wiped out everybody else.”
“When you die for your own, you die with respect, you die a warrior.”
“I'm lucky if I make it to 18, we in a war! We graduating every day we live because we ain't afraid to die, protecting our own.”
“You are the heroes. You are heroes every day.”
“- Erin Gruwell: I love you.
- Steve Gruwell: You love the idea of me.”“When I look out in the world I don't see nobody that looks like me with their pockets full unless they're rapping a lyrics or dribbling a ball.”
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