Burn! (1969)

Evaristo Márquez: José Dolores

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• José Dolores : If a man gives you freedom, it is not freedom. Freedom is something you, you alone, must take.

• Sir William Walker : So, you did not steal them? Then why did you say you did? Because I said you did?

  José Dolores : Yes, Señor.

  Sir William Walker : Because anything a white man says is right, isn't it?

  José Dolores : Yes, Señor.

  Sir William Walker : If I were to say that your mother was a whore - would that be true? Is it true?

  José Dolores : My mother is dead.

• José Dolores : You can tell the white men. Tell your friends.

  Sir William Walker : They're not my friends, José.

  José Dolores : Well, no matter. You tell them, "Be careful". Very careful. They may know how to sell sugar but we are the ones who cut the cane!

• José Dolores : If they let me live it means it is convenient for them. And if it's convenient for them, it is convenient for me to die.

• José Dolores : It is not true that fire destroys everything. A little life always remains. Yet in the end, a blade of grass. So, how come the white invaders win? How come they win in the end? Someone of us will always remain. Still others will be born later. And others, too, will begin to understand. In the end, you also will understand. And the whites, in the end, will be maddened by you. Madder than a white beast becomes when he finds he's closed in and the mad beast'll run for the last time, pursued and hunted all over the island, till he falls into one of the great fires that he himself has made. And the groans from this dying beast will become our first cry of freedom. One that will be heard far, far beyond this island.

• José Dolores : Go away! And stay away! Ramón, clear the whites out! All of them!

• Portuguese Soldier : What are you doing here? Where are you going? Stop there. What do you got in here? Come on, speak up. What is it?

  José Dolores : Bananas, Señor. What else?

  Portuguese Soldier : Bananas, huh? And what's this? A case of bananas? Very heavy bananas, huh?

• José Dolores : The hunter lets the hawk live only when he wants a decoy or to hunt in his place. He's kept alive, but in a cage.

• José Dolores : Inglis, remember what you said? Civilization belongs to whites. But what civilization and till when?