Perry Mason (TV Series)

Chapter Five (2020)

Dale Godboldo: Debater

Quotes 

• Debater : My esteemed opponent has a view of our race that I do not... cannot share. We must accept, he says, the segregation that daily confines us to inferior schools, inferior housing, inferior care, if we are injured or sick. We must accept, he says, the humiliation that daily denies us the simple dignity of being human, no more, no less. All the while we're urged to... to help ourselves, right? Educate ourselves. Restrain ourselves, in hopes that one day, one glorious day, the white man will smile upon us and say, "Now, now I respect you." When comes that day, friends? Tomorrow? Next year? Next century? No, the only way to earn our place is to agitate, organize, demand that the promise of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal is a spur to justice and not the most galling of hypocrisies.