"A Fourth dimension to Kill" quotes

(1996)

Movie A Time to Kill

Title A Time to Kill
Yr 1996
Director Joel Schumacher
Genre Drama, Law-breaking, Thriller

Plot – In Mississippi two drunk fools rape the x-yr-sometime daughter of Carl, a blackness worker. The man is unable to control himself and takes alone his personal justice, then he'due south imprisoned. Jake is his young lawyer full of ideals, who must face a social situation dominated by preconceptions, silence and complicity. Subsequently much hesitation, Jake accepts the assistance of Ellen, an energetic and enterprising law student who throws herself headlong in the events, merely suffers the vengeance of some members of the local Ku Klux Klan.

All actors – Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel 50. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles S. Dutton, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Patrick McGoohan, Ashley Judd, Tonea Stewart

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  • "You can't blame a nigger for existence a nigger, no more than than yous tin blame a canis familiaris for being a canis familiaris. Simply a whore like you, co-mingling with mongrels, betraying your ain. That makes yous worse than a nigger." Kiefer Sutherland - Freddie Lee Cobb
  • "Can you encounter her? Her raped, browbeaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can yous come across her? I want you to film that piffling girl. At present imagine she's white." Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
  • "I got a fiddling girl. Somebody rapes her, he'due south a dead dog. I'll accident him away just similar Carl Lee did."
    Chris Cooper - Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney
  • "- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you lot recall they should deserve to dice?
    - Carl Lee Hailey: Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn down in hell!"
    Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
    Samuel Fifty. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "What is it in u.s. that seeks the truth? Is it our minds or is information technology our hearts?"
    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
  • "- Ethel Twitty: Will you assist an onetime lady to her car?
    - Lucien Wilbanks: You don't need any help, Ethel. But I'd exist honored to escort you to your motorcar."

    - Ethel Twitty
    Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks
  • "Nigger, negro, blackness, African-american, no matter how y'all see me, you see me different, you lot see me like that jury sees me, you lot are them. Now throw out your points of police force, Jake. If y'all was on that jury, what would information technology accept to convince you to set me costless? That's how you salvage my donkey. That's how y'all save united states both." Samuel Fifty. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "Our society cannot condone men who take the police force into their own hands."
    Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
  • "- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Practise y'all remember ii men who hang a child should exist costless in ten years?
    - Carl Lee Hailey: No sir.
    - D.A. Rufus Buckley: Well what do you lot think should happen? What would exist a off-white judgement?"

    Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
    Samuel Fifty. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "Yous're an attorney. Be proud. You task is to find justice no thing how well she may hide herself from you." Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks
  • "You only went ahead and did what yous felt you had to do, no affair what the cost. Some folks recall that's brave. Non me, Jake."
    Brenda Fricker - Ethel Twitty
  • "Got to love the Lord for making things like that." Oliver Platt - Harry Rex Vonner
  • "I call back about them as well boys. Dead, buried, probably starting to rot. And I retrieve them walking into court... i proud, the other scared. I call back how they fell. Ane on top of the other, screaming and squirming and not going nowhere. God help me Gwen, simply that's the only idea that give me comfort." Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "There ain't nothin' more than unsafe in this globe than a fool with a cause."
    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
  • "America is a war and you are on the other side. How's a black human ever going to get a off-white trial with the enemy on the bench and in the jury box? My life in white hands? You Jake, that'southward how. You lot are my undercover weapon because y'all are one of the bad guys." Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "- Jake Tyler Brigance: We're non the same, Carl Lee. The jury has to place with the defendant. They see you, they see a yardworker; they see me, they encounter an attorney. I live in town, you live in the hill.
    - Carl Lee Hailey: Well, you are white and I'one thousand blackness. Meet Jake, you think just like them, that'southward why I picked y'all; you are 1 of them,..." (continue)
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    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
    Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "It ain't easy saving the earth, even one case at a fourth dimension."
    Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks
  • "- Jake Tyler Brigance: I can't be you, Lucian.
    - Lucien Wilbanks: Don't be me, Jake. Be better than me."

    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
    Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks
  • "- Jake Tyler Brigance: I need a potable.
    - Lucien Wilbanks: At three o'clock in the afternoon? What would your wife think?
    - Jake Tyler Brigance: I'chiliad my own human, Lucien. I drinkable when I want to.
    - Lucien Wilbanks: When did she leavetown?
    - Jake Tyler Brigance: This forenoon."

    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
    Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks
  • "If you win this case, justice volition prevail. And if you lose, justice will likewise prevail. Now, that is a foreign case." Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks
  • "- Jake Tyler Brigance: Carl Lee, I'g your friend.
    - Carl Lee Hailey: We ain't no friends, Jake. We are on different sides of the line, I own't never seen you in my part of town. I bet you don't even know where I alive. Our daughters, Jake; they own't never gonna play together."

    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
    Samuel Fifty. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
  • "I am very proud to invite you lot to become soldiers in a state of war to protect our Christian homes and families, to resurrect our country from the fires of racial deposition, and to make white people the sole masters of our land's destiny. What I'grand maxim, fellas, it's fourth dimension for niggers to pay." Kiefer Sutherland - Freddie Lee Cobb
  • "Until we tin can encounter each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain goose egg more than than a reflection of our own prejudices."
    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
  • "- Ellen Roark: Ever seen a man executed?
    - Jake Tyler Brigance: No.
    - Ellen Roark: What I suggest is you go to an execution, and see a human being be killed. You watch him die, and yous watch him beg."

    Sandra Bullock - Ellen Roark
    Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
  • "- Harry King Vonner: Lucien, I thought yous were dead.
    - Lucien Wilbanks: I'g trying."

    Oliver Platt - Harry Rex Vonner
    Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks