I thought that hatred could make me strong, so I fought with my fists. Then God gave me 30 years of injustice.
After 30 years behind bars, I defended the freedom that I can only have. Justice will always come...
Letters from strangers made me feel warm and weak. I thought I would lose forever, but that The flickering lights gave me endless power in an instant. The force that forces me to defend justice is called "love."
Hate put me in prison, Love gonna bust me out...Hate put me in prison,
love made me see the sun again...
Three superimposed life sentences, an innocent black boxing champion.
The tripartite dialogue that appeared during the confinement was wonderful, struggle, pain, fear, strength, hatred...wandering between radical and cowardice.
He insisted not to wear the prison uniform. He was innocent. Even though he was dirty and smelly, he did not want to give up the justice he insisted on defending.
Denzel Washington is still that amazing actor, performing unbiased time and time again.
In the end, he had a dispute with two lawyers in prison when he appealed to the Federal Court. The drama was heartbreaking.
"I'm 50 years old...I've been locked up for 30 years!! I've put a lot of good people's lives at risk..Now either get me outta here...Just get me outta here. .."
In the court, the hurricane finally asked to make a statement:
"I was a..prizefighter.My job was to take all the hatred and skill that I could muster,and send a man to his destruction.And I did that.
But Rubin Hurricane Carter is no murderer.
20 years I've spend locked up in a cage considered a danger to society,not treated like human being,not treat like a person.Counted 15 times a day.
I serve my time in a house of justice,and yet,there's no justice for me.
So I ask you to consider the evidence.Don't turn away from truth,don't turn away from your conscience.Please don't ignore the law,no embrace that higher principle for which the law was meant to serve.Justice,that's all I ask for, Your Honor.
JUSTICE. "
Justice and justice are his only request.
The salvation of strangers, nothing is a coincidence...
"Now you're out, are you still gonna be Hurricane?"
"Oh, I always be the Hurricane. And the Hurricane is...beautiful."
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