Little House on the Prairie (TV Series)

The Craftsman (1979)

Melissa Gilbert: Laura Ingalls

Quotes 

• Laura Ingalls : I don't see why you have to spend so much time with that old man.

  Albert Quinn Ingalls : Well, I like him. That's why.

  Laura Ingalls : You seem to be the only one that does. Nobody likes Jews!

  Charles Ingalls : Half-Pint, what kind of talk is that?

  Laura Ingalls : Well, it's true. And I get made fun of too, just because I'm his sister.

  Charles Ingalls : So then rather than being made fun of, you go along with the rest of them that dislikes someone just because they're a Jew.

  Laura Ingalls : I don't dislike him...

  Charles Ingalls : Half-pint, if you don't stand up to people... bigots... then you're no better than they are. Worse, in fact, because you know that it's wrong and you allow them to think that you feel the same way they do.

• Zeke : [referring to Albert, with whom he's arguing over a call during a schoolyard baseball game]  Hey, looks like the Jew-boy wants another beating!

  Lem : OK, let's give it to him!

  Laura Ingalls : [grabs the baseball bat and runs between the boys]  Hold it, both of you! I've already hit two home runs today; you want your head to be the next one?

  Zeke : Oh, why don't you stay out of it?

  Laura Ingalls : 'Cause I'm a Jew-lover too, that's why! Now unless you want me to knock enough wind out of you to fly a kite, you better get back!

  Lem : Come on, Zeke, leave him be. It ain't worth getting your head broke for.

  [both walk away] 

  Albert Quinn Ingalls : Thanks.

  Laura Ingalls : You're welcome.

  [pauses] 

  Laura Ingalls : You *were* out, you know.

  Albert Quinn Ingalls : I know.

  [both laugh]