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"[first lines] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough."
"You want a show?! Huh?! Is that what you want?! You can all go to Hell!"
"My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a miner all my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't see anyone grab them by their privates or drawing pictures of them on the bathroom walls, it's unspeakable. Unspeakable! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! It's a heck of a thing, to watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. In fact the only one I'm not ashamed of is my daughter."
"Charlize Theron as Josephine "Josey" Aimes"
"Frances McDormand as Glory Dodge"
"Sean Bean as Kyle Dodge"
"Richard Jenkins as Henry "Hank" Aimes"
"Jeremy Renner as Robert "Bobby" Sharp"
"Michelle Monaghan as Sherry"
"Thomas Curtis as Samuel "Sammy" Aimes"
"Woody Harrelson as Bill White"
"Sissy Spacek as Alice Aimes"
"Tom Bower as Gray Suchett"
"Linda Emond as Leslie Conlin"
"Rusty Schwimmer as Big Betty"
"Jillian Armenante as Peg"
"Xander Berkeley as Arlen Pavich"
"Chris Mulkey as Earl Slangley"
"Corey Stoll as Ricky Sennett"
"Brad William Henke as Mr. Lattavansky"
"John Aylward as Judge Halsted"
"Marcus Chait as Wayne"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.