& Will: He died with honor, Newt.
Newton Knight: No, Will, he just died.
& Newton Knight: Saving a life ain’t easy, yeah? And when you do, it’s something special.
& Prosecutor (year 1948): «Case number 0646. The State of Mississippi versus Davis Knight. That Davis Knight did knowingly and willfully and feloniously violate Mississippi law by engaging in a marital union with one Junie Lee Spradley, a white woman. That as the great-grandson of Newton Knight and a Negro slave known commonly as Rachel, he is of at least 1/8th Negro blood, and as such, meets the minimum standard to be considered a colored person in the State of Mississippi.»
& Newton Knight: Girls, you know how to shoot one of these? Hmm?... It ain’t real hard, all right? It’s just loud the first time.
& Colonel Lowry: «The Free Men of Jones County»?
Lt. Barbour: That’s what he said.
& Ward: Put it back, nigger!
Moses: How you ain’t?
Ward: 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: 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.
& Newton Knight: It seems that we don’t got no country on either side. And that’s all right. I guess we’re kind of our own country. And if we’re honest about it, hadn’t we been our own country for a long time?
& Newton Knight: Jasper, let me see that paper there... From this day forward, we declare the land north of the Pascagoula swamps, south of Enterprise and east of the Pearl River to the Alabama border to be a «Free State of Jones.» And as such we do hereby proclaim and affirm the following principles.
Number one, no man oughta stay poor so another man can get rich.
Number two, no man oughta tell another man what he’s gotta live for or what he’s gotta die for.
Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest, and there ain’t no man oughta be able to take that away from you.
Number four... every man’s a man. If you can walk on two legs, you’re a man. It’s as simple as that.
& Defense Attorney: ...Two women livin’ on one farm at the same time. Now normally, in a court of law, we have trouble provin’ who the father is, but in this strange, strange case, we have trouble provin’ the mother... Time has a way of changin’ things.
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Newton Knight: No, Will, he just died.
& Newton Knight: Saving a life ain’t easy, yeah? And when you do, it’s something special.
& Prosecutor (year 1948): «Case number 0646. The State of Mississippi versus Davis Knight. That Davis Knight did knowingly and willfully and feloniously violate Mississippi law by engaging in a marital union with one Junie Lee Spradley, a white woman. That as the great-grandson of Newton Knight and a Negro slave known commonly as Rachel, he is of at least 1/8th Negro blood, and as such, meets the minimum standard to be considered a colored person in the State of Mississippi.»
& Newton Knight: Girls, you know how to shoot one of these? Hmm?... It ain’t real hard, all right? It’s just loud the first time.
& Colonel Lowry: «The Free Men of Jones County»?
Lt. Barbour: That’s what he said.
& Ward: Put it back, nigger!
Moses: How you ain’t?
Ward: 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: 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.
& Newton Knight: It seems that we don’t got no country on either side. And that’s all right. I guess we’re kind of our own country. And if we’re honest about it, hadn’t we been our own country for a long time?
& Newton Knight: Jasper, let me see that paper there... From this day forward, we declare the land north of the Pascagoula swamps, south of Enterprise and east of the Pearl River to the Alabama border to be a «Free State of Jones.» And as such we do hereby proclaim and affirm the following principles.
Number one, no man oughta stay poor so another man can get rich.
Number two, no man oughta tell another man what he’s gotta live for or what he’s gotta die for.
Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest, and there ain’t no man oughta be able to take that away from you.
Number four... every man’s a man. If you can walk on two legs, you’re a man. It’s as simple as that.
& Defense Attorney: ...Two women livin’ on one farm at the same time. Now normally, in a court of law, we have trouble provin’ who the father is, but in this strange, strange case, we have trouble provin’ the mother... Time has a way of changin’ things.
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