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SAM: That’s the way it is, Hally.
HALLY: It doesn’t have to be that way. There is something called progress, you know. We don’t exactly burn people at the stake any more.
SAM: Like Joan of Arc.
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End:
HALLY: It’s the likes of you that kept the Inquisition in business. It’s called bigotry. Anyway, that’s my man of magnitude. Charles Darwin! Who’s yours?
SAM: (without hesitation) Abraham Lincoln.
HALLY: I might have guessed as much. Don’t get sentimental, Sam. You’ve never been a slave, you know. And anyway we freed your ancestors here in South Africa long before the Americans.
Athol Fugard, “MASTER HAROLD” … and the boys, Vintage Books, 2009, pp.15-20.
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