We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written, but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any.
11 seconds sound clip from the Glory (1989) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:02:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- The Massachusetts men passed through here this morning.
- But this time we must make it a whole country, for all who live here, so that all can speak.
- Before this war began many of my regiment had never seen a Negro.
- Now the roads are choked with the dispossessed.
- Last night we heard of yet another defeat, but we are not disheartened.
- I am honoured to be part of such a splendid company.
- They have made me captain, of which I am enormously proud.
- Thank you for sending my volume of Emerson. His words come home to me like truth.
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