A Dry White Season
Movie Quote Quiz

Gordon Ngubene: They've arrested Jonathan.
Ben du Toit: Again? What for?
Gordon Ngubene: There is big trouble in the townships. They're killing our children! I saw the bodies, Mr. Ben. Many have been detained. I went to the hospital. To the mortuary. Everywhere! The police deny they have Jonathan.
Ben du Toit: Why didn't you tell me?
Gordon Ngubene: I am telling you.

Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.

Ben du Toit: If someone told you your child had died and wouldn't tell you how he died or where the body was buried, wouldn't you be upset?

Ian McKenzie: I will take your case if only to make it abundantly clear how justice in South Africa is misapplied when it comes to the question of race.

Suzette du Toit: I thought the idea was to give them their own homelands, let them live with their own kind.

Ben du Toit: You must not give up hope, Emily.
Stanley Makhaya: Hope's a white word, laanie. It's not hope we need.

Melanie Bruwer: When the system's threatened, they'll do anything to defend it.

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