“- Ira: The penalty for impersonating an officer is five years in prison.
- Harry: Maybe for you, white boy. Me, they hang.”

David Duchovny - Ira
Orlando Jones - Harry

“As a black man in America, my stress comes from everywhere. Recognize. Take a look around you. Look at this, Columbus, it disgusts me. Fool wasn't nothin' but a thief, mass murder. He done slaughtered millions of native Americans, and we done got a holiday and university named after his honor.”
Omar Epps - Malik Williams

“Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man's skin if witnesses perjure themselves. If a prosecutor enlists the perjurers. When a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain, and men of the cloth, men of God, take the prime cuts? Is that justice?”
Morgan Freeman - Judge Leonard White

“You want to know what my crime is? My crime was being born. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've been locked up twenty-six of those. I educated myself in here, and I've come to understand that this country was built on exploiting the black man.”

Brent Jennings - Abdul Elijah

“I can get it all back. I was a financial genius. 1 and 1 is 2. 2 and 2 is 4. 4 and 4 is three. I still got it!”

Mel Brooks - Goddard Bolt