Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Carleton Young: Capt. Shattuck

Quotes 

• Capt. Shattuck : You are trying to trade your murderer's bravery for the mercy of the court! Isn't that it?

  1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge : No, sir, that is not it at all!

  Capt. Shattuck : All right, Rutledge, if that isn't it, what was it?

  1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge : It was because the Ninth Cavalry was my home, my real freedom, and my self-respect, and the way I was desertin' it, I wasn't

  [voice cracking] 

  1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge : nuthin' worse than a swamp-runnin' nigger, and I ain't that! Do you hear me? I'm a man!