Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Birth of a Nation Quotes

“ A PLEA FOR THE ART OF THE MOTION PICTURE / We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue - the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word - the art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare” (IMDb)
                                
“I shall deal with them as though they had never been away” (IMDb) Lincoln on the re-admittance of the Southern States
...The policy of the congressional leaders wrought... a veritable overthrow of civilization in the South... in their determination to 'put the white South under the heel of the black South.' WOODROW WILSON” (IMDb)
The bringing of the African to America planted the first seed of disunion” (Opening intertitle)
“For her who had learned the stern lesson of honor we should not grieve that she found sweeter the opal gates of death.”

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