A Time to Kill Quotes

Lucien Wilbanks: You wanted this case, well you've got it. It isn't easy saving the world even one case at a time, but you stick with it. You just might have a knack for it. Don't do what I did. Don't quit.
Jake Tyler Brigance: What are you talking about, quit? You're a hero, Lucien.
Lucien Wilbanks: Hero my ass. Do you think the

world needed me beating cops heads on that picket line? I was needed here. In that courtroom. And I let them push me, I gave them an excuse to kick me out and now I can never plead a case in there again. But you can. You're an attorney. Be proud. You job is to find justice no matter how well she may hide herself from you. So you go on in there and you do your job.

Jake Tyler Brigance: I don't know what to say.
Ethel Twitty: There's nothing you can say. I know you didn't want any of this to happen, but it happened all the same. You wagered all our lives on this. You just went ahead and did what you felt you had to do, no matter what the cost. Some folks think that's brave. Not me, Jake. Now, you may win, but I think

we've all lost here.

Carl Lee Hailey: What that Memphis doctor say about her?
Gwen Hailey: She's doing good. Her jaw is healing. She can't run and jump yet, but it won't be long.
Carl Lee Hailey: How about the other?
Gwen Hailey: There was too much damage. She ain't never gonna have kids.
Carl Lee Hailey:

You know, I think about them too boys. Dead, buried, probably starting to rot. And I remember them walking into court... one proud, the other scared. I remember how they fell. One on top of the other, screaming and squirming and not going nowhere. God help me Gwen, but that's the only thought that give me comfort.
Gwen Hailey: They took up a collection for us at the church.

Some kind of defense fund. Reverend Agee gave a good service. We need some money around the house, Carl Lee, for groceries and bills.
Carl Lee Hailey: How much you got?
Gwen Hailey: Less than 50.
Carl Lee Hailey: I'll think of something.
Gwen Hailey: How you think you going to get some money when you

stuck in jail?
Carl Lee Hailey: Trust me Gwen.
Gwen Hailey: I just get scared.
Carl Lee Hailey: Look here, tell me exactly what Reverend Agee said when he passed around the collection plate.

Tim Nunley: Sure am sorry about your brother, Freddie. Ol' Willard too... good boys both.
Freddie Lee Cobb: Ten years ago, that n*gger'd be hanging by the end of a rope with his balls in his mouth. Now you tell me what's wrong with this country.
Winston: Klan would know what to do.
Freddie Lee Cobb: My

granddaddy, he was Klan.
Tim Nunley: Ain't been no Klan around here for years.
Winston: Ah they's still some boys around.
Tim Nunley: What you mean them skinheads that want to blow up the government?
Winston: No sir, good god-fearing Klan... I got a friend, used to be active, could give him a call.

Freddie Lee Cobb: You do that Winston. You tell them boys we need some Klan down here in Canton. And I mean right quick.

Freddie Lee Cobb: [Freddie Lee Cobb handling out Klu Klux Klan application forms to Winston, Willie Hastings, and others] Boys, I am very proud to invite you to become soldiers in a war to protect our Christian homes and families, to resurrect our country from the fires of racial degradation, and to make white people the sole masters of our country's destiny, what I'm saying

fellas, it's time for niggers to pay.