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Birth of a Nation

 D. W. Griffith
 

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1. “A Plea For The Art of the Motion Picture: We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word—that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.”
 
 
2. “The bringing of the African to America planted the first seed of disunion.”
 
 
3. “On the battlefield. War claims its bitter, useless sacrifice. True to their promise, the chums meet again.”
 
 
4. “The agony which the South endured that a nation might be born. The blight of war does not end when hostilities cease.”
 
 
5. “The inspiration.”
 
 
 
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