Corporal Ira Clark Quotes in Lincoln (2012)

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Corporal Ira Clark Quotes:

  • 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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