Selma, Lord, Selma

Selma, Lord, Selma

Selma, Lord, Selma is a 1999 American film based on true events that happened in March 1965, known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. The film tells the story through the eyes of an 11-year-old African-American girl named Sheyann Webb (Jurnee Smollett). It was directed by Charles Burnett, one of the pioneers of black American independent cinema. It premiered as a television movie on ABC on January 17, 1999.

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Jonathan Daniels:
By not trying to stop it, you become part of it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
You may have the law on your side but we have morality on ours and one day you're going to have to accept that.

Willie:
You're a racist, and all your men are racists in the same way that Hitler was a racist!

Jonathan Daniels:
The only ugliness in this world is man's creation, not God's.

Sheyann Webb:
God doesn't put anybody down. Just people do.

Jonathan Daniels:
Does God wants us to be divided, Father?

Father Whitaker:
Jonathan, that's a debate that's gone on for a long time.

Jonathan Daniels:
Well, I don't think it's a debate in God's eyes.

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