“We are fighting for a people whose poetry has not yet been written.” – Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Glory ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Glory 1989

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Matthew Broderick

[Writing a letter to his mother]

We are fighting for a people whose poetry has not yet been written.

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