TRAINING DAY [2001]

The Only Thing More Dangerous Than The Line Being Crossed, 

Is The Cop Who Will Cross It

Today's a training day, Officer Hoyt. 

Show you around, give you a taste of the business. 

I got 38 cases pending trial, 63 in active investigations, another 250 on the log I can't clear. 

I supervise five officers. That's five different personalities. Five sets of problems. 

You can be number six if you act now. 

But I ain't holding no hands, okay? I ain't baby-sitting. 

You got today and today only to show me who and what you're made of. 

You don't like narcotics, get the fuck out of my car. 

Go get you a nice, pussy desk job, chasing bad checks or something, you hear me? 

[Alonzo Harris]

 It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

[Alonzo Harris]

[Alonzo Harris]: Use your ears and hear me, Jake. 

Sometimes we gotta take this shit all the way. 

Now, nobody will ever ask you to pull the trigger if you don't want to. [to Mark]

Mark, where are you transferring to? 

[Mark]: S.I.S

[Alonzo Harris]: S.I.S. Detective. 

Give me 18 months, I'll give you a career. 

We're an elite unit. We make the big seizures. We make the big arrests. 

But if you're in my unit, you gotta be in it all the way or not at all. 

I thought that you was man enough to face that. I

 guess I was wrong. 

Five proven, decorated officers say that you're the shooter. 

The investigators are gonna want to pull a tube of your blood to check for intoxicants, and what are they gonna find, Jake? 

Do the math. 

You've been smoking PCP all day, haven't you? 

[Jake Hoyt]: You've been planning this all day? 

[Alonzo Harris]: I've been planning this all week, son. 

You talk that crazy shit, I'll make sure that blood gets to the lab. 

You wanna walk your baby nuts around the block, you won't make it to the corner, but if you're cool, 'if' you're cool... then you're a hero. 

You're a virgin shooter above suspicion. 

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REMEMBER THE TITANS [2000]

History Is Written By The Winners

I don't scratch my head unless it itches and I don't dance unless I hear some music. 

I will not be intimidated. 

That's just the way it is. 

[Coach Boones]

We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. 

You drop a pass, you run a mile. 

You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. 

You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. 

Perfection. 

Let's go to work. 

[Coach Boone]

This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. 

Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today. 

This green field right here, painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys. 

Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. 

Listen to their souls, men. 

I killed my brother with malice in my heart. 

Hatred destroyed my family. 

You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. 

If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. 

I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. 

And maybe... I don't know, maybe we'll learn to play this game like men. 

[Coach Boone] 

Tonight we've got Hayfield. 

Like all the other schools in this conference, they're all white. 

They don't have to worry about race. We do. 

Let me tell you something: you don't let anyone come between us. 

Nothing tears us apart. 

In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. 

They ruled their universe with absolute power. 

Well that football field out there, that's our universe. 

Let's rule it like titans. 

[Coach Boone]

You look like a bunch of fifth grade sissies after a cat fight! 

You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it, 

you got aggression that's even better you're gonna need that, too. 

But any little two year old child can throw a fit! 

Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection!

[Coach Boone]

I'm a winner. I'm going to win. 

[Coach Boone]

Sometimes life is hard for no reason at all. 

[Carol Boone]

People say that it can't work, black and white. 

Here, we make it work every day. 

We still have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we remember the Titans. 

[Older Sheryl]

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THE PREACHER'S WIFE [1996]

They Needed Help

What They Got Was A Miracle

Things haven't changed since Adam, 
and he gave up one of his ribs so he'd have somebody to keep things from.

[Marguerite Coleman]

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PHILADELPHIA [1993]

No One Would Take On His Case... 

Until One Man Was Willing To Take On The System

[Joe Miller]: The Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against otherwise qualified handicapped persons who are able to perform the duties required by their employment. 

Although the ruling did not address the specific issue of HIV and AIDS discrimination... 

[Andrew Beckett]: Subsequent decisions have held that AIDS is protected as a handicap under law, 

not only because of the physical limitations it imposes, 

but because the prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precede... 

which precedes the physical one. 

[Joe Miller]: This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, 

but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics. 

We're standing here in Philadelphia, the, uh, city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the, uh, founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, 

and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. 

I believe it says all men are created equal. 

[Joe Miller]

[Judge Garrett]: In this courtroom, Mr.Miller, 

justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation. 

[Joe Miller]: With all due respect, your honor, we don't live in this courtroom, do we? 

[Joe Miller]: What do you love about the law, Andrew?

[Andrew Beckett]: I... many things... uh... uh... What I love the most about the law?

[Joe Miller]: Yeah.

[Andrew Beckett]: It's that every now and again 

- not often, but occasionally - 

you get to be a part of justice being done. 

That really is quite a thrill when that happens.

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