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Jake Brigance: "I need a drink."
Lucien Wilbanks: "At 3 in the afternoon? What would your wife say?"
Jake Brigance: "I am my own man Lucien. I drink when I want."
Lucien Wilbanks: "When did she leave town?"
Jake Brigance: "This morning."

DA Rufus Buckley: "Do you think they deserve to die?!"
Carl Lee Hailey: "Yes, they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!"

Jake Brigance: "You see, in all this legal maneuvering something's gotten lost. That something is the truth. It is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth, but to actually seek it, to find it, to live it...What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds, or is it our hearts? I set out to prove a black man could receive a fair trial in the south...that we are all equal in the eyes of the law. That's not the truth. Because the eyes of the law are human eyes...yours and mine, and until we can see each other as equals justice is never going to be evenhanded. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices. So until that day, we have a duty under God to seek the truth. Not with our eyes and not with our minds where fear and hate turn commonality in prejudice, but with our hearts. But we don't know better."