“Selma” quotes
(2014)
Ava DuVernay
directed this movie
in 2014
Title Selma
Year 2014
Director Ava DuVernay
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 2014
Director Ava DuVernay
Genre Drama, History, Biography
All actors – David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Jim France, Trinity Simone, Mikeria Howard, Jordan Rice, Ebony Billups, Nadej k Bailey, Elijah Oliver, Oprah Winfrey, Clay Chappell, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Haviland Stillwell, André Holland, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Colman Domingo, Omar J. Dorsey, Tessa Thompson, Common, Lorraine Toussaint, David Morizot, David Dwyer, E. Roger Mitchell, Dylan Baker, Ledisi Anibade Young, Kent Faulcon, Stormy Merriwether, Niecy Nash, Corey Reynolds, Wendell Pierce, John Lavelle, Stephan James, Trai Byers, Keith Stanfield, Henry G. Sanders, Charity Jordan, Stan Houston, Tim Roth, Greg Chandler Maness, Nigel Thatch, Stephen Root, Michael Papajohn, Brian Kurlander, Jeremy Strong, Elizabeth Diane Wells, Tara Ochs, David Silverman, Charles Saunders, Dexter Tillis, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Michael Shikany, Brandon O'Dell, Dane Davenport, Brandon Carroll, Mark Cabus, Christine Horn, Dan Triandiflou, Jody Thompson, Kenny Cooper, Montrel Miller, Charles Black, Zipporah Carter, Willean Lacy, Dawn Young-McDaniel, , Kathy Alderman, Sean Baker, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Knox Bentley, Victoria Blackmon, Qualen Bradley, Àaron Brewster, Ronan Brookes, Jeffery James Bucchino, Judy McGee Burley, Randy Capes, Christopher Anthony Carr, Corey Champagne, Marcus Chase, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Yamanee Coleman, John Collier, Clint Crane, Sammy Davis Jr., Bennett Wayne Dean Sr., Doris Dean, Jeremy Degree, Ken Dohse, Shannon Edwards, John Fleischmann, Samuel Lee Fudge, Fred Galle, Carl Graddy, J.J. Green, Christine Hameed, Roger A. Harrison, Walter Hendrix III, Cassandra Hollis, Donald Horner, Thomas Hughes, Wayne Hughes, Charlandra L. Jacobs, Michael David Johnson Jr., King, John Archer Lundgren, Cheri Marcelle, Stanley McLaughlin II, Kyle McMahon, Jamall Rashaud McMillan, John Merical, Gordon Meyer, Samuel Oden, Joseph Oliveira, Amahre Palmer, Darla Pelton-Perez, Niki Romano, Patti Schellhaas, Martin Sheen, Carol Anne Taylor, Jasmine Taylor, Mike Taylor, Wenzell Washington, Mark Wellander, Rachelle Wicker, Sabrina C. Williams, Shakesha Williams, Susan Willis, Jessica Yoshimura
show all“Selma” Quotes 15 quotes
“We negotiate, we demonstrate, we resist.”
“What happens when a man says enough is enough?”
“- 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.”“How many of us you think they gonna kill in retaliation? With their 12-gauge pump-actions, their Colt automatics, their Remingtons, their helicopters, their tanks! We won't win that way, and I ain't talking about the Bible. I ain't talking what's right by God. I am talking facts. Cold, hard facts! Now you take two of them, and they take 10 of...” (continue)(continue reading)
“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.”
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!
“It is unacceptable that they use their power to keep us voiceless.”
“- Gov. George Wallace: Mr. President, malcontents are disrupting Alabama and it's your responsibility to stop them.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: They're protesting about the right to vote and the way they're treated in your state, so that's your problem and it's your responsibility and it's on your watch.”“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.”
“Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?”
“I'll be damned to let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.”
“Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.”
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