Lincoln (2012)

David Oyelowo: Corporal Ira Clark

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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.