American History X Quotes (1998)
Danny: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Danny: Venice Beach didn’t always look like this. It used to be a good neighborhood. The Boardwalk’s always been a dump but when my dad moves us out here Venice was a nice quiet place to grow up. Over the years though it’s just gone to hell. The gangs are like a plague they moved west from Inglewood and South Central and basically took over.
Doris Vinyard: I’m ashamed that you came out of my body.
Derek (to Seth): I think you’ve lost weight, man. I can get my arms almost all the way around you.
Young Cop: He was a skinhead, right?
Derek Vinyard: One in every three black males is in some phase of the correctional system. Is that a coincidence or do these people have, you know, like a racial commitment to crime?
Derek: You prey on people Cam. I lost three years of my life for your phony cause but I’m onto you know you snake.
Derek Vinyard: D’you see this?
[Pulls down shirt to reveal huge swastika tattoo on his chest]
Derek Vinyard: This means “Not welcome”.
Doris Vinyard: You think you’re the only one doin’ time, Derek? You think I’m not in here with you?
Young Cop: He’s forty? Jesus.
Murray: This paper is a travesty, Bob! Arguing for Hitler as a civil rights hero?! You’ve gotta draw a line.
Sweeney: Murray… it says in your syllabus that they could do their report on any book related to the struggle for Civil Rights.
Murray: Oh come on, Bob!
Sweeney: Let me finish! He needs help… I’m not disputing that. But I read it and I’m not going to throw him out.
Murray: His brother probably put him up to it.
Sweeney: I can guarantee you his brother didn’t have anything to do with it, Murray.
Murray: Derek, what are you trying to prove?
[Inside prison laundry]
Lamont: I’m the most dangerous man in this prison. You know why? ‘Cause I control the underwear.
Derek: Bite the curb.
Cameron: Now wait a minute Danny, he’s not proud, no he’s a manipulative self-righteous Uncle Tom whose trying to make you feel guilty about writing about Adolf Hitler.
Cameron: You made the fat kid a little nervous. He thinks the joint messed with your mind.
Derek Vinyard: It did.
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