Memorable Quotes from Hari Rhodes
4 quotesBreck's Anger Over Armando's Death
Breck
(furious at the news of Armando's death) I knew that circus owner was lying!
MacDonald
But they insist that he fell to his death accidentally.
Breck
While trying to escape! He knew he'd been exposed!
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The Morality of Violence and Punishment
MacDonald
Caesar! Caesar, this is not how it was to be!
Caesar
In your view or mine?
MacDonald
Violence prolongs hate, hate prolongs violence. By what right are you spilling blood?
Caesar
By the slave's right to punish his persecutors.
MacDonald
Caesar, I, a descendant of slaves, am asking you to show humanity!
Caesar
But I was not born human.
MacDonald
I know. The child of the evolved apes.
Caesar
Whose children shall rule the Earth.
MacDonald
For better or for worse?
Caesar
Do you think it could be worse?
MacDonald
Do you think this riot will win freedom for all your kind? By tomorrow--
Caesar
By tomorrow, it will be too late! What if a tiny, mindless insect like the emperor moth can communicate with another over a distance of eighty miles?
MacDonald
An emperor ape might do slightly better?
Caesar
Slightly?! What you have seen here today, apes on the five continents will be imitating tomorrow!
MacDonald
With knives against guns?! With kerosene cans against flamethrowers?!
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The Call for Revolution and Power
Caesar
I'm the one they're looking for.
MacDonald
I never believed it. I thought you were a myth.
Caesar
They won't learn to be kind until we force them to. We can't do that until we are free...by the only means left to us - revolution. We cannot be free until we have power. How else can we achieve it?
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The Dangers of Enlightenment Among Oppressed Groups
MacDonald
Brightness has never been encouraged among slaves.
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