Cry Freedom Quotes

Cry Freedom is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Cry Freedom stopped airing in 1970.

It features Richard Attenborough as producer, George Fenton in charge of musical score, and Ronnie Taylor as head of cinematography.

Cry Freedom is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Cry Freedom is 157 minutes long. Cry Freedom is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Denzel Washington as Steve Biko, Ian Richardson as State Prosecutor, Kevin Kline as Donald Woods, Josette Simon as Tami, Penelope Wilton as Wendy Woods, and Kevin McNally as Ken.

Cry Freedom Quotes

Denzel Washington as Steve Biko

• (Denzel Washington) "We are going to change South Africa. What we've got to decide is the best way to do that. And as angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in the struggle to kill the idea that one kind of man is superior to another kind of man. And killing that idea is not dependent on the white man. We must stop looking to him to give us something. We have to fill the black community with our own pride. We have to teach our black children black history, tell them about our black heroes, our black culture, so they don't face the white man believing they are inferior. Then we'll stand up to him in anyway he chooses. Conflict, if he likes, but with an open hand, too, to say we can all build a South Africa worth living in; a South Africa for equals, black or white, a South Africa as beautiful as this land is, as beautiful as we are."

• (Denzel Washington) "This is the biggest illegal gathering I've ever seen."

• (Denzel Washington) "You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be."

• (Denzel Washington) "-- but you a black child, smart or dumb, you're born into this and smart or dumb, you'll die in it"

• (Denzel Washington) "My lord, blacks are not unaware of the hardships they endure or what the government is doing to them. we want them to stop accepting these hardships; to confront them. People must not just give in to the hardship of life, they must find a way, even in these environments, to; to develop hope; hope for themselves, hope for this country. now I think that is what black consciousness is all about. Not without any reference to the white man. To try to build up a sense of our own humanity; our legitimate place in the world."

• (Denzel Washington) "I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are."

• (Denzel Washington) "When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that i wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines; all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man."

• (Denzel Washington) "It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you. Then you go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it."

Ian Richardson as State Prosecutor

• (Ian Richardson) "But your own words demand for DIRECT CONFRONTATION."
• (Denzel Washington) "That's right, we demand confrontation."
• (Ian Richardson) "Isn't that a demand for violence?"
• (Denzel Washington) "Well, you and I are now in confrontation, but I see no violence."

Penelope Wilton as Wendy Woods

• (Penelope Wilton) "I know you. You're willing to tear our lives to see Donald Woods on a book cover. And you're using Steve's death as an excuse."
• (Kevin Kline) "Bloody hell."

Kevin Kline as Donald Woods

• (Kevin Kline) "Do you know anyone we can trust, who has a car?"
• (Josette Simon) "I trust me. And I have a car. The Boers will s*** themselves."

• (Kevin Kline) "Ken."
• (Kevin McNally) "Yeah?"
• (Kevin Kline) "You like football, don't you?"

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