- Jud Larrabee: I don't need no nigger defending me! I don't need nobody! You understand, I don't need nobody!
- Joe Kagan: Mr Larabee there, I ain't got no use for him or his kind. We all know what he did to this town and to the Garvey boy. If him and others like him fell off the earth tomorrow, the world would be a better place. That's for sure. But that ain't up to me. I gotta live my life the best way I can knowing that the Larabees of this world are always looking at me and my kind with hatred in their hearts. I can't change that. But I gotta believe in the law, and I gotta believe in justice, and I gotta believe that justice applies to each and every one of us including Mr. Larabee. Maybe I see things different than most people. Maybe I am different. But for less reason than you'd convict a man for burning a barn that nobody saw him burn, I've seen my people with ropes around their necks hangin dead. Maybe that's what makes me different. Cuz I can't erase those pictures from my brain. I've seen what can happen when justice disappears and I will bring harm to no man when his guilt ain't been proved in my eyes