Little House on the Prairie (TV Series)

The Wisdom of Solomon (1977)

Todd Bridges: Solomon Henry

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• Eva Beadle : Solomon?

  Solomon Henry : Yes, ma'am?

  Eva Beadle : Can you think of something that you dislike?

  Solomon Henry : Being a nigger.

• Solomon Henry : You answer me something, Sir. Would you like to live to be a hundred?

  Charles Ingalls : I'm sure. It's not very likely, but I guess all of us want to live to be a right-old age.

  Solomon Henry : Would you rather be black and live to be a hundred, or white and live to be fifty?

• Solomon Henry : I want learnin', Mama! I wanna read! I wanna go to school like all them other children!

  Mrs. Henry : That's a white man's school, Honey! You can't go there!

  Solomon Henry : Why? If we free, why can't I?

  Mrs. Henry : You're free to be what the white folks want you to be...

• Solomon Henry : If I have to be what the white folks want me to be, than I'm a slave as much as Papa was.

• Charles Ingalls : Well Solomon, this paper is dated 1854. That's a long time ago. Folks can't sell themselves anymore.

  Solomon Henry : Who says?

  Charles Ingalls : Well, I know that Walnut Grove must seem like the end of the world, but even we have heard of the Emancipation Proclamation.