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"[Moze caught with her silver in hand] You ever try and steal anything from me again, I'll shoot you myself, you understand that? [Moze nods]"
"[to Moze] You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doin' and you farmed that land better than anybody could - colored or white. You're the one that brought in the first bale of cotton this year. Don't you ever forget that."
"Forgot to tell you, we got a letter from your Aunt Gladys. She was hoping we could come to Oklahoma and visit them... during your vacation. But I don't know. I was hoping we could paint the house."
"Mrs. Spalding, believe me, if I had anyplace else to go tonight besides the State Home for the Infirm, I'd gladly leave right now. Now, when I came here, all I asked was to be left alone. I am not some kind of freak that is here on display for the amusement of those hooligans you call children."
"Right on my biscuit!"
"Albert Denby: Mrs. Spalding, when tragedies like this happen sometimes we have to face up to things that are real hard."
"W.E. Simmons: You know what your trouble is, Mrs. Spalding? You are the victim of unbridled greed."
"Sally Field - Edna Spalding"
"Lindsay Crouse - Margaret Lomax, Edna's sister"
"Ed Harris - Wayne Lomax, Margaret's husband"
"Amy Madigan - Viola Kelsey"
"John Malkovich - Mr. Will"
"Danny Glover - Moses "Moze" Hadner"
"Lane Smith - Albert Denby (Banker)"
"Terry O'Quinn - Buddy Kelsey, Viola's husband"
"Bert Remsen - Tee Tot Hightower"
"Yankton Hatten - Frank Spalding, Edna's son"
"Gennie James - Possum Spalding, Edna's daughter"
"Ray Baker - Sheriff Royce Spalding, Edna's late husband"
"Jay Patterson - W.E. Simmons"
"Toni Hudson - Ermine"
"DeVoreaux White - Wylie"
"Bill Thurman - Homer"
"Jerry Haynes - Deputy Jack Driscoll"
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.