- Oliver Wendell Douglas: [telling Eb to save up to buy a car] I pay you more than enough. What do you do with your money?
- Eb Dawson: I send it home to my mother so that she won't have to take in washing. I can't stand to see her kneeling by the side of a stream, pounding some stranger's shirt with a rock!
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: If the stranger doesn't mind, then why should you?
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: [Sam says Eb was complaining about mistreatment] I treated him very well!
- Sam Drucker: Only allowing him to have one sock? I don't consider that good treatment.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: One sock? Did he tell you that?
- Sam Drucker: Yeah, and a lot of other things, too. Like how you used to hit 'em everytime his mother ruined one of your shirts when she beat it with a rock.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: You didn't believe him, did you?
- Sam Drucker: Not until he asked me to take off his leg irons!