Free State of Jones (2016)

Mahershala Ali: Moses

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• Newton Knight : [eulogizing]  These boys... These young men... They was your friends, your cousins, your brothers and your kin. But to those soldiers who didn't know 'em, they was just niggers. They was just somebody else's nigger. So somehow, some way or sometime, everybody is just somebody else's nigger. Mr. Moses, are you a nigger?

  Moses : No, I'm not.

  Newton Knight : What are you?

  Moses : A free man, captain.

  Newton Knight : Well, why's that?

  Moses : 'Cause you cannot own a child of God.

  Newton Knight : No, you cannot, can you? You can own a horse, you can own a mule or cow or an ox, but you... You cannot own a child of God.

• Ward : What are you doin', nigger? That ain't for you. Put it back. Put it back, nigger.

  Moses : How you ain't?

  Ward , Moses : What?

  Moses : I said, how you ain't?

  Ward : How I ain't what?

  Newton Knight : What he says, Ward, is how you ain't a nigger. I mean, they just pick cotton for 'em. You-You was willin' to get killed for 'em

• Newton Knight : I'm gonna die so they can get rich.

  Moses : That's why we left too.

• Moses : Deserted. How come?

  Newton Knight : It ain't my fight, you know? Don't own no slaves. Ain't gonna die so they can get rich selling cotton.

  Moses : That's why we left, too.

• Moses : [looking at his dog bite]  Let me see that there.

  Newton Knight : Aw, it ain't that bad.

  Moses : You must be pretty brave then. Y'all must taste like we do, the way he latched onto you.

• Newton Knight : Mr. Moses, what are you?

  Moses : A free man, captain.

  Newton Knight : Sure is.

• Newton Knight : Lyin' like that? Don't it make you dizzy?

  Moses : Oh, no. It don't bother me now.

  Newton Knight : I guess you get used to anything.

  Moses : No, you can't.