Lincoln (2012)

Colman Domingo: Private Harold Green

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• Corporal Ira Clark : Now that white people have accustomed themselves to seeing negro men with guns fighting on their behalf, and even getting the same pay, in a few years perhaps they can abide the idea of negro lieutenants and captains. In fifty years, maybe a negro colonel. In a hundred years, the vote.

  Abraham Lincoln : What will you do after the war, Corporal Clark?

  Corporal Ira Clark : Work sir. Perhaps you'll hire me.

  Abraham Lincoln : Perhaps I will.

  Corporal Ira Clark : But you should know, sir, that I get sick at the smell of bootblack, and I cannot cut hair.

  Abraham Lincoln : [grins]  I've yet to find a man could make a difference with mine.

  Private Harold Green : You got springy hair for a white man.

  Abraham Lincoln : I do. My last barber hanged himself. And the one before that. Left me his scissors in his will.

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  Private Harold Green : [speaking to Lincoln on the battlefield]  Some of us was in the Second Kansas Colored. We fought the Rebs at Jenkins' Ferry last April just after they killed every Negro soldier they captured at Poison Springs. So at Jenkins' Ferry, we decided warn't takin' no Reb prisoners. And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive. The ones of us that didn't die that day, we joined up with the 116th US Colored, sir, from Camp Nelson, Kentucky.