Hell on Wheels (TV Series)

White Justice (2015)

Byron Mann: Chang

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Quotes 

• Tao : [in Chinese]  Steal with one hand, gift with the other?

  Chang : By three methods we may learn wisdom. First by reflection. Second by imitation.

  Tao : And third by experience.

  Chang : Which is the bitterest.

  Tao : Wisdom comes by experience, which is the reason young men must respect their elders.

• Chang : I want justice.

  Collis Huntington : It's not easy to know what that means. Frankly, Mr. Chang, I don't know what's possible.

  Chang : What's possible?

  [sitting down] 

  Collis Huntington : A 20-year-old Chinaman gets on a boat in Guangdong, China. He sets sail with a Sze Yup Company flyer and a ticket for passage. He arrives in San Francisco, where a team of men herd him and a hundred others into freight cars that transport them to Cisco. In Cisco, another team loads the men into wagons. Then three days later, after traversing the Sierra Summit, they deliver those Chinamen to the railroad. Now neither you

  [Strobridge] 

  Collis Huntington : , you

  [Bohannan] 

  Collis Huntington : , or you

  [Huntington] 

  Collis Huntington : have the capability to reproduce that impossible feat once, let alone 15,000 times. So when I ask for justice, I mean justice. The kind reserved for civilized men, free from the danger of a rope.

• [last lines] 

  Cullen Bohannan : There won't be a trial. That'd be a waste of time. And they wouldn't be convicted, 'cause the only witnesses is you and Tao. And Chinamen ain't allowed to testify against white men under California law.

  Chang : So this is America.

  [abacus beads clacking] 

  Chang : It may be the law, Mr. Bohannon, but it is not justice.

  Cullen Bohannan : No, it ain't. Them men will leave Truckee, and you're gonna let 'em. Do we understand each another?

  Chang : I think we understand each other very well.