Selma (2014) quotes

Director
Ava DuVernay.

Cast
David Oyelowo.
Carmen Ejogo.
Tim Roth.

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Our lives are not fully lived if we’re not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
– President Lyndon B. Johnson

Those who have gone before us say “no more”! No more!
– Martin Luther King Jr.
NO MORE!
– Martin Luther King Jr.
That means protest! That means march! That means disturb the peace! That means jail! That means risk! That is hard!
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Selma it is.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.
– President Lyndon B. Johnson

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. 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.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

We must march! We must stand up!
– Martin Luther King Jr.

What happens when a man says enough is enough?
– Martin Luther King Jr.

We negotiate, we demonstrate, we resist.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?
– President Lyndon B. Johnson

It is unacceptable that they use their power to keep us voiceless.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

I’ll be damned to let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.
– President Lyndon B. Johnson